From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@msx.upmc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 29 2002 - 12:47:36 MST
Dickey, Michael F
[mailto:michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com]
wrote:
population essentially has guranteed access to it. After
that government
will probably be demoted to limited land ownership claims,
if anything at
all. But not because people will actively seek to remove
government from
those equations, but because no one will care all that much
about the
government nor ask much from it.
### I wish you were right but I am afraid that the
government might a much tougher dragon to slay. Once it becomes possible to
engineer humans, especially their social and ethical reasoning circuitry,
there will be governments willing to design the perfect citizen - a creature
loathing freedom, and fully committed to the interests of its hive. Judging
from the evolutionary success of ants and bees, we, the freelance humans,
might be in for some rough times then.
Rafal
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