The Novel Daemon as a Model for Agorist/"Counter-Economics" Utility/Implementation

In the novel "Daemon" by Daniel Suarez, the darknet created by the "Daemon" (Disk And Execution MONitor, pronounced like the word, "Demon"), gives darknet operatives powers that are greater than the police. It decides whom to empower by their willingness to be bound by "common law" morality, as well as "goal-directed morality." (In this regard it is no more moral in the service of its ends than the existing state, but its ends are more moral.)

In any case, in the novel, darknet operatives hold informational power greater than that of the police, because the Daemon favors a decentralized, democratic system.

One of the tools the Daemon employs are virtual reality glasses, that feature immersive VR "callouts" hovering above high-value real-world objects and people. Additionally, the higher-powered operatives (the ones that have shown more skill and loyalty to the Daemon's goals) are given far more powerful tools and weapons. One such weapon is "haptic clothing" that uses the skin as an input for a sensory stream. The skin of the weaerer is mapped to something like a screen that measures proximity with micro-pulses of electricity, allowing them to visualize the proximity of approaching police, darknet assistants, drones, and environmental features. This assists the darknet operatives in avoiding police, and in establishing a defensive meritocracy. (A voluntary mutual-defense pact among all darknet operatives.)

Many obstacles exist toward creating such a system in real-life, but this is one way in which a voluntaryist anarchy could gradually emerge: the building of Daemon-like systems enabled with GPS and GIS systems.

It would be totally necessary to re-create google maps, and other systems that are now given to the "sheep in white mode" and the existing "police." It would be necessary to hack every police station, and provide their information to the darknet. It would be necessary to reject all existing systems (google, facebook, twitter, etc.) in exchange for replicated systems.

But how much value could this provide users? Immense value. Especially if these systems could not be taken down, and were anonymized on services similar to tor.

Right now, Ray Kurzweil has estimated that a tactical nuclear strike couldn't take down the internet, just a portion of it. ...But this doesn't mean that the authorities are weak. The fact that Snowden is on the run, and Ross Ulbricht is in prison are evidence that they employ some skilled network engineers and computer programmers.

I'm not a skilled programmer. But I'm curious to know how difficult creation of an encrypted system like the Daemon might cost to build. Less than what Peter Thiel gave to the Ron Paul "SuperPAC"?

If there are skilled programmers here, can they answer: How feasible is it to create a "grey market" internet that features VR-glasses and "callouts" similar to the ones depicted in "Daemon"?

I'm curious because it leads to a possibile means of creating a decentralized voluntaryist network:

1. The system creates anonymized darknet operatives who are "not doing anything wrong" (ie: using the darknet much like "sheep in white mode" (conformists) use google glass). Such people are then part of the "grey market."
2. The system establishes metrics for how skilled operatives are, and how powerful they are. (Just as the CIA does.)
3. Basic operational security is "in place" whenever darknet operatives are operating, thanks to rising "sousveillance" (sous="everything", veillance="surveillance/watch")
4. As the following articles note, Google Glass was a failure, released with inadequate tools, in beta. But the real reason it failed is because Google released the glasses believing every early-adopter was a philosophical simpleton who accepted the existing police state as legitimate. Because google cooperates with totally illegitimate "law enforcement," nobody wanted to invite the DEA, ONDCP, FDA, local police, NSA, and other various-and-sundry totalitarian shitbags to follow them around in their day-to-day lives.

• Mashable mashable.com/category/project-glass/
  ---But what if the INDIVIDUALS that made VR glasses actually believed in individual freedom? What if they were committed to it? That might change the game.

1. Because google is conformist in its highest-level philosophical hierarchy, it is essentially an arm of the illegitimate police state, and the darknet must build all of its own hardware and systems from scratch. This means, if we wish to have any freedom at all, we must stop skilled engineers and weapons system designers from being recruited by the CIA and other arms of the existing police state.
2. The claims of existing "sheep in white mode" "libertarians" are not plausible. They do not favor freedom, nor do they favor individual rights or the civil disobedience that protects and expands individual rights. A rigorous "vetting" process is therefore necessary for darknet operatives. The Daemon accomplished this by recruiting young video-game players who were successively more alienated from society, and then applying a "carrot-and-stick" approach to them. (It could threaten to steal their credit, add criminal records to them in police car databases, kill them if they reneged on promises/loyalty, and would offern them amazing technology that placed them above the level of centralized power systems if they pledged their loyalty to the Daemon system.)