Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One of the most vivid positive descriptions of a world under the
> Cypherpunk model of anarchy would be David Friedman's Machinery of
> Freedom.

Friedman's book was the one that made me into a (propertarian)
anarchist.

> But Friedman's book is a series of arguments, not a vivid picture of
> daily life in such an environment. The closest he gets is a
> depiction of what he says is a close equivalent to the
> anarcho-capitalist vision, medieval Iceland.

Vernor Vinge's short story "The Ungoverned" is the best bit of fiction
I know of covering the same territory. It was inspired by Friedman's
vision.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger                [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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