Ideally, as an arch-anarchist, I would like to go beyond the minimal-state and the market anarchy and arrive at arch-anarchy. Of course, a market anarchy would be the system with the greatest individual freedom in a Hobbesian world of scarce resources, conflicting objectives, and mutual threats.
A good starting point can be found in a book from 1997: "The Sovereign Individual," a book written by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson, which predicts the end of the nation-state and, in its place, we will have enclaves, corporate cities, private jurisdictions, and sovereign entities without a national base. Basically, a world divided into sovereign private micro-territories that treat their inhabitants as clients. The book predicted Bitcoin, but a decade before its launch. I will leave a link to a PDF and a link to a short summary video on YouTube about the book at the end of this article.
Although this system creates a competitive market for government services with much more freedom for the individual than the current system, it is still far from being an anarchy because: 1) there are still territorial monopolies, since each enclave/corporate city controls its own physical space. 2) there is still sovereign exclusivity; you cannot simply overlap several protection agencies within the same territory (as would happen, say, in a market anarchy). 3) there are still physical migration costs, however low they may be, they are not instantaneous. 4) there is still physical violence and material threats, even if to a lesser degree than in the current system.
Fortunately, I have a solution that brings us closer to true anarchy. Some futurists, like Ian Pearson and Raymond Kurzweil, believe we are close to developing a transfer of the human mind to the computer; in fact, Mr. Kurzweil predicts this as possible by the mid-2040s. Combine this technology with the blockchain technology used in Bitcoin, and we have a decentralized server for digitized minds, far beyond the reach of any governmental or corporate group. The inhabitants of this virtual world can live and do business there using cryptocurrencies, buy or rent computing space analogously to how we buy or rent Residential real estate, and pay for cybersecurity services in a manner similar to a defense agency/private police in a market anarchy. Digital identities are stored on the blockchain, allowing for trustworthy reputations without a state; smart contracts resolve disputes without centralized courts; and DAOs enable decentralized organization.
If they need to interact with the physical world, they can use synthetic bodies, perhaps with some rental service or something similar; in fact, Ian Pearson foresees this as part of his vision of the future. You are no longer limited by borders, you are free from state coercion. And the best part is, with uploading, you are now immortal.All that's needed is a backup mechanism similar to those used in regular computers. Blockchain technology can make this easier.
This would be a great advancement in the dreams of arch-anarchy, not only for the reasons mentioned above, but also because in this virtual environment we can create digital universes where we can escape natural laws, such as gravity. Of course, the digital universe would still be limited not only by processing and data limitations, but the hardware on the outside would still be subject to the laws of nature (which is the reason for the aforementioned limitations, obviously) as well as the logic by which computers operate. Even so, the advancement in individual freedom would be incrible.
Link: https://www.lopp.net/pdf/The%20Sovereign%20Individual.pdf
Vídeo link: https://youtu.be/LYS86CdR_v8?si=GZ_PTxGPy7rGQU3g