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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:59:47 EDT
Subject: Re: CryoNet #17267 Anarchy is bad?

From G. Tripp:

> I think power-balance currently favours big armies and consortiums because
>the infrastructure required to support a sustained attack, defense or market
> effort requires the coordinated efforts of millions of individuals and
> enormous capital resources.
> However, I think that, in the future, nanotechnology will change the balance
> of power in favour of small consortiums and in a fairly uniform manner so
> that no individual group would have a distinct advantage. >>

Anarchy  is the contrary of herarchy, it is not disorder, it is an 
organization without herarchy. Politic systems, military ones or corporations 
are example of herarchy. Religions are another. Anarchy is similar to self 
organizing system, the Open Source/ GNU project in computing is a form of 
anarchy. It has produced Linux for example, not an inferior product if you 
look at its herarchy competitor: Windows.

Napster was an anarchy song distributor at the origin, it has now been 
converted to business/herarchy, not a good thing for liberty or distribution 
efficiency.

I think many thing could be produced in the open source framework and anarchy 
don't need full nanotech to start. The only request is some thinking.

Yvan Bozzonetti.

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