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not until Bezos becomes President. How about Government-as-a-Service? (I mean for regular citizens :)

• nucleardog 13y ago
  Read "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, if you haven't.
  • VladRussian2 13y ago
    thank you, sounds interesting about brainstem BIOS/etc... , while other staff (i looked up from Wikipedia): " The federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power to private organizations and entrepreneurs.[3] Franchising, individual sovereignty, and private vehicles reign (along with drug trafficking, violent crime, and traffic congestion). Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts while private security guards preserve the peace in sovereign, gated housing developments. ... . The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds where they transact tedious make-work that is, by and large, irrelevant to the dynamic society around them." sounds very similar to USSR/Russia around 1989-92. It were a fun times :)
  • lukifer 13y ago
    And "Diamond Age", for that matter. The concept of "phyles" is not unlike government as a service.
  • webmaven 13y ago
    And "Jennifer Government".