Elmo Keep, a writer for The Monthly, dives into the origins and impact of the cypherpunks, a group of Silicon Valley libertarians seeking to replace government with technology. They believed in a society governed by code, but their ideas have seeped into real-world politics. Keep discusses how figures like Assange, Thiel, and Musk embody this philosophy as they shape modern power dynamics. He critiques the notion that engineers can effectively redesign governance, while considering Australia's unlikely adoption of techno-libertarianism due to its egalitarian values.
