[ClearCase_guy]

This sort of thing has been appearing in science fiction novels for quite a while.
Also appearing in science fiction is digital money which cannot be traced, cannot be taxed.

At some point, these things (in fiction, anyway) tend to build a world in which the concept of government has no place at all.
Just one example: “The Diamond Age” by Neil Stephenson. Nanotechnology, post-scarcity economy, no real cash, the concept of government replaced by Distributed Republics which are not based on territory but are more like club memberships with mutual support agreements for people who are “citizens” of the club.

Interesting world coming our way — and I’m not sure people like Reid, Pelosi or Obama will have any role to play at all.

[Black Agnes]

It will only take one crazy with a weaponized microbe and there won’t be very many people in *any* republic at all.

Don’t think the elites haven’t been drooling over this possibility for the past 100 years or more.

And their families will have been innoculated against the weaponized microbe. Yours? not so much with that protection.

How do you protect a military base against these. Even over and above the spying potential. From heaven only knows who, only 10 or 20 could cause havoc if they carried a microbe, or even small amounts of highly radioactive substances.

And restraining orders and registered sex offender lists become meaningless with these as well. Imagine these in the hands of a thrill killer. Like Lanza. Or Holmes, who we now find out was possibly a muzzie all along.

The bugzapper and fly swatter comments are entertaining but only because the public hasn’t grasped the complete potential of these.

Know how easy it is for your computer to get infected with malware when you surf the net? Imagine that computer is YOU and the malware gets loaded when you go to the mall or grocery store. Tracking devices, poisons, microbes, you name it.

[DaveyB]

...Also appearing in science fiction is digital money which cannot be traced,

You might want to research Bit-Coin. The attempt has started and the FBI is spooked.

[MeganC]

“Also appearing in science fiction is digital money which cannot be traced, cannot be taxed.”

It is not science fiction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

[PUGACHEV]

"... government [will be] replaced by Distributed Republics which are not based on territory but are more like club memberships with mutual support agreements for people who are “citizens” of the club... "

I don't disagree with you, but I think a better discription of the "Distributed Republics" you suggest would would be corporations, as in: the world is a business, Mr. Beal!