Share your favorite liberating technologies
As governments continue to aggress against peaceful individuals and close off officially approved avenues of production and exchange (i.e. actions taken to improve one's well-being), it will become increasingly necessary to use every tool available to counter the state and build a free society. I believe that the rapidly advancing state of certain technologies could benefit individuals and distributed networks of freedom-fighters at the expense of the state. I consider these to be liberating technologies. It could include things like alternative currencies, online security, actual physical security tools, small-scale crop production, open source hardware for things like personal fabrication and construction of buildings, communications and counter-surveillance tools, recording/shaming of cops and politicians, seasteading, etc.
What I'd like to do is have my readers comment below, sharing your favorite liberating technologies---not just categories, but specific products and services, even if they're only hypothetical at this point. This is an area in which I feel quite under-educated, and I think everyone would benefit from the sharing and cross-pollination of ideas.
The more we are able to learn and the more of us who are able to incorporate some of these tools into our lives, the better off we'll be and the sooner a free society will evolve and crowd out the state and its banditry. Let the sharing begin!
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July 3rd, 2011 - 09:05
Larsen Truss super insulated walls – R40+ insulation in the walls of a house with no more cost than a standard 2×6 framed house. Reduces dependency on grid electricity which is naturally linked to the state monopoly and makes alternative technologies more economically feasible (because of lowered power requirements)
http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/SolarHomes/LarsenTruss/LarsenTruss.htm
July 3rd, 2011 - 10:31
Thanks, Glenn! And I know you’ve got some more ideas!
September 12th, 2011 - 21:00
Greetings! I know this is kind of off topic but I was wondering if you knew where I could get a captcha plugin for my comment form? I’m using the same blog platform as yours and I’m having difficulty finding one? Thanks a lot!
September 17th, 2011 - 08:41
I didn’t even remember my blog having captcha, but it must be part of my anti-spam plugin, which you can find here: http://akismet.com/