Sovereign Individual

* Book: James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg's The Sovereign Individual (1997).

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Discussion

Sterlin Lujan:

"Fueling the fire, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg's The Sovereign Individual (1997) provided a macro-historical frame for the cypherpunk argument. Their book became a staple of counter-technological thinking, energising much of the individualist spirit that the 1990s attracted. They predicted that digital technology would undermine the fiscal and coercive monopolies of nation-states. Just as the agricultural and industrial revolutions reshaped communities and developed the original state structure, the information revolution would empower individuals and small groups to 'exit' from traditional states. In their forecast, sovereignty would become personal, mobile, and economically enabled by encryption and digital money.

Collectively, the cypherpunks and The Sovereign Individual exemplify the convergence of technological protocols and economic prophecy: the means to construct parallel societies and the vision for these societies to surpass nation-states."

(https://blog.nomos.tech/story-of-the-network-from-cybernetics-to-blockchain-communities/)