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Marvin Long wrote: >> On the other hand, doesn't Kiln People's future predict a collapse of > traditional forms of government, which is very much in line with some > cyber- and cypherpunkish predictions? > Brin seemed to imply a variety of different governments around the workd, PEZ (or whatever it was) being one where the "big deregulation" had made particularily government-free. Interestingly enough, he cites many environmental, traffic, civil, and other types of fines (covering everything up to corporate espionnage!), which makes it an extremely POLICED stated. By its computers and its citizens, I conjecture. Emmanuel Caisse
