For 40 years, this Russian family was cut of from all human contact

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I'm getting old on HN; some stories are repeating and repeating, and there was an XKCD about it, it's repeating too and I'm repeating myself too, ohh I'm getting old on HN...

At some point in the relatively near future, with the proliferation of Earth monitoring from space, it'll be possible to 'see' the impact of every person on our planet, even if they're just a few people living hundreds of miles away from everyone else. We're getting to the stage where every square metre is photographed on a regular basis, we're getting space-based streaming video platforms (eg urthecast.com), and presumably commercial IR spectrum monitoring is either already there or coming soon.

It's actually heartening that this sort of story, eventually, won't really be able to happen any more.

> It's actually heartening that this sort of story, eventually, won't really be able to happen any more.

I think it's unfortunate.

What possibilities will exist for people who may want (or may need!) to live a life outside of the societies of man?

In case you haven't seen it, Vice made and excellent documentary about Agafia's life in Siberia.

It's a sad yet inspiring story, I highly recommend it for anyone interested.

Heres the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68

The book by Vassili Peskov is really interesting and gives lots of detail about their lives there: http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Taiga-Fifty-Year-Religious-Wilder...

Living the libertarian idyll.

(2013)

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