Date sent: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:09:44 -0800 (PST) From: Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com> Subject: Nanarchy To: extropians@extropy.com Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> Ok, I'm sick of defending capitalism and tired of showing how the
> defense of government is a defense of coercion and violence against
> the individual.
>
> I think that this will all become a moot point once we have mature
> nanotechnology (MT). If MT can provide food, clothing, and shelter
> cheaply enough for the world's population that it can be given away
> for free, and if MT can eliminate manual labor, will there even be a
> point in having a government?
>
> In such a case will we still have a currency? If most people decide
> to take advantage of a labor free world and just lay around enjoying
> the luxuries of MT, what will fund the governments of the world? Will
> governments enscript people to perform menial labor tasks (manually
> built buildings, pyramids, etc) just to excersize some form of coercion?
>
> If MT provides Utility Fog which can be utilized (Active Shields?) to
> protect it's owner (wearer?) from most any kind of physical harm
> (except maybe huge explosions), how will the government be able to
> extort funds (assuming we still use currency)?
>
> If MT allows us to protect ourselves, gives us perfect health,
> drastically increases our education prospects, feeds us, clothes us,
> and shelters us, what use is the government?
>
> Those of you who still refuse to turn away from pro-government
> propoganda and see the alternatives, what will you do the day
> government becomes obsolete? Shouldn't we begin to prepare today?
>
>
Once people are uploaded, who will maintain the machine, internal
maintainence? This would work for some problems, but not
mechanical ones, which would require corporeal (bodily) repairers.
These un-uploaded custodians would have the capacity to become edictators,
whether the uploaded agreed or not. If someone has your
brain in a jar (or in a hard drive) s/he owns you. Joe
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