Although the author describes AR in these terms: "the kill-or-be-killed ethos of the paranoid libertarian capitalist Ayn Rand" he describes a new world generated from blockchain, the underpinning of Bitcoin that is being applied to everything.

'Daniel Larimer, who is working on a tool called Bitshares to apply blockchain technology to banking, insurance and company shareholding, believes that this new breed of technologies will ultimately render government entirely obsolete.

“If you think about it, what is the reason for government? It’s a way of reaching global consensus over the theory of right and wrong, global consensus over who’s guilty and who’s innocent, over who owns what.

“They’re going to be losing legitimacy as more open, transparent systems are able to provide that function without having to rely on force. That’s my mission in life.”'

How much of this is driven by libertarianism compared to Objectivism, I haven't completely thought through yet - but the first reading makes me want to study block chain a lot more in depth. But a great article nevertheless.