“The tools are already here, he noted: 3-D printing makes it ‘impossible to ban physical objects,’ from guns to drones. The borderless digital currency Bitcoin defies economic regulation. The Quantified Self movement helps people self-measure and opt out of the health care system. He urged his audience to invent opt-out tools of their own, including one ‘allowing people, the middle class, to make tax shelters.’ Mr. Srinivasan has influential support: Some of the biggest names in the Valley have variously proposed building a Mars colony, an unregulated zone of experimentation on Earth or floating libertarian islands at sea.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/us/silicon-valley-roused-by-secession-call.html?_r=1&
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