“Srinivasan references Google CEO Larry Page’s recent call to ‘set aside a part of the world’ for unregulated experimentation, and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s prediction of rapid creation of new countries in the years to come. But those new spaces don’t have to be location-based, he argues. 3D printing will make it impossible to ban physical objects. Virtual currencies like Bitcoin can render capital controls unenforceable and put stored wealth beyond the reach of the state. Telepresence and remotely controlled robots will allow people to ‘be’ anywhere without physically crossing a border.”
http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/30/tech-should-make-it-easier-to-escape-the
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