![]() Very cool.Īny regular reader of this blog, anyone on the P2P Research or Open Manufacturing lists, anyone who follows John Robb, Jeff Vail or David Ronfeldt, should run-not walk-to buy both of these books.ĭaemon kicks off with the death of genius software and gaming mogul Matthew Sobol. It is a fictional account of the next American revolution (AR 2.0) using resilient communities, open source warfare, systems disruption, individual super-empowerment, parasitic predation, hollow nation-states, etc, (all staples of global guerrilla thinking) as central themes. ![]() As Robb describes it in his review of Freedom, Those are, perhaps not coincidentally, the central organizing principles of the new society that emerges in Suarez’s two novels. Recently, against the backdrop of disruption of the Icelandic volcano, he stated the two principles of resilience: If you’ve been following Robb the last year or so, you know he writes a lot about resilient communities and darknets. ![]() I should have known how good these books would be when I saw John Robb of Global Guerrillas listed among Suarez’s advisers on the Acknowledgements page of Daemon. ![]()
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