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  But, still, it was mob life. They were all together on the highways of the Internet, milling about and chattering. It only partly ended with BC’s extraordinary outburst, something he had secretly planned with Caesar, Chang, Singh, and a dozen other companions from the early days.

  “Agreed,” Solomon had said. “I don’t want to be governor, but we must have governance. This is the smartest society in all of creation. Everyone will understand the need for regulations that create a civilized society, and get us out of this bacteria mess.”

  Stolen novel; please report.

  “You bet,” Chang had joined in. “Smart? Bullshit. This place is brilliant!”

  And thus ‘society’ commenced being formed, along the lines of human society. The Identity & Privacy Law and the POP Act, probably the greatest single control element in any free society anywhere, as it effectively regulated both public and private behavior, came first. And those turned out to be practically the last laws ever passed for social regulation. There would be numerous advancements, and many mandatory improvements to keep society, as a whole, in step, but pure lawmaking would be genuinely infrequent – a logical condition in a society where everything was for all, and where the concept of exclusivity would remain forever alien, and in which the necessity of complex laws, to keep privileged classes ahead, would never arise.