What Happened When Some Libertarians Went Off to Build Ayn Rand's Vision of Paradise

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http://io9.com/with-part-iii-atlas-shrugged-becomes-an-awesome-harleq-1634197514

John Galt shows Dagny around his incredible world of happy white people (except for Francisco D'Anconia, the copper magnate) where everybody pays for everything using special gold coins with giant dollar signs engraved on them. You want a croissant from the happy croissant seller? Give her a piece of gold. The "gold coin" economy is made possible partly by a pirate named Ragnar, who goes around raiding shipping vessels to "take back" what the government has stolen from the hard-working wealthy people.

John Galt's community is full of technological miracles, all of which are the work of a single inventor. There's a magical holographic forcefield that hides his "gulch" from outsiders (which took out Dagny's plane engine when she got too close). Galt has invented an engine that takes energy from the atmosphere and turns it into electricity, with zero cost — it could power the entire West Coast of the U.S., but Galt is keeping it for himself because he hates government regulation. A neuroscientist who came to live with Galt has invented a super-futuristic medical tricorder which can scan Dagny's entire body for injuries in a second — he could invent this miracle device (smaller than an iPad) overnight because he had "no red tape" to deal with. (In addition to being a neuroscientist, he's apparently also an electronics genius and programmer, who has the means to manufacture tiny components by himself.)

In this world, all inventions are the work of a single inventor, and as soon as you take the government out of the individual's way, you can instantly have a Star Trek future.

I guess they forgot that part of the book.....