In the future...
Bitcoin will protect our property rights.
Nostr will enable our free speech.
3D print will guarantee our self defense.
But for sovereign individuals to survive and thrive we need to imagine the institutions that will allow us to live in a free, open and voluntary society. Where cooperation and trade are not dictated from above by kings and parliaments, but built bottom up and constantly evolving to fit our needs.
Some authors like Vernor Vinge (The Ungoverned), Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash) or Heinlein (The Moon is a harsh Mistress) have tried to imagine what would replace nation states and governments in a voluntary society.
Others like David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom), Murray Rothbard or Bruce Benson have theorised.
More have studied what institutions historical stateless or decentralised societies used for conflict resolution and to provide the services that we have come to rely on the state for.
Solutions and ideas are out there. But how to go from idea to reality? How to meme a freer world into existence?
