Vanish

After I finished reading Evan Ratliff’s account of his vanishing from society, I was intrigued. At first did not think there was any way in hell that he could vanish without anyone figuring out where he was or what he was doing. After changing his appearance and literally being able to go anywhere in the U.S., I couldn’t possibly think of a way people could find him. But as I kept reading, I was amazed by not only the technology people were using to find Evan, but the massive amount of people trying to find him. I got the same feeling I did when I was reading the article earlier in the year about Freyer selling all of his things, in that I was surprised at the way people could work together and get along. There were a bunch of different talents working together, from the high school hacker to the Microsoft employee who ended up finding out the twitter account that Evan was using during the end of the hunt.

Another thing I thought of while reading this was how cool it would have been to be able to do this. I know that Ratliff said he was constantly feeling paranoid, but I feel that there has to be some kind of rush that goes along with it. This can work on the other side of the coin too. I wish I had the resources to be able to track down Evan like the people who were chasing him did.