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In the Fight for Freedom, Technology Gives Individuals an Edge Over Governments
A cold civil war brews between empowered individuals and controlling officials.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/05/07/in-the-fight-for-freedom-technology-givethis growing divergence between what we can do and what our rulers want us to do may be a portent of an accelerating technology-fueled cold civil war.
First time i've heard that term used, 'cold civil war' or 'World cold civil war' might be more appropriate. It really conjures up the imagination; the computer literate individual, in an arms race with the worlds Orwellian superpowers.
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984