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Analyzing Balaji Srinivasan’s Book - The Network State
The Network State: How To Start a New Country
thenetworkstate.com
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The triumph of shared time and the demise of shared place in the Digital City changes the experience of social belonging. While the modern state is not going anywhere anytime soon, the relationship of citizens to the nation is evolving.
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
Balaji's argument in The Network State, as I am interpreting it, is as follows. While we do need political collectives bound not just by economic interest but also by moral force, we don't need to stick with the specific political collectives we have today, which are highly flawed and increasingly unrepresentative of people's values. Rather, we can... See more
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Juan Orbea added
The key idea is to populate the land from the cloud, and do so all over the earth. Unlike an ideologically disaligned and geographically centralized legacy state, which packs millions of disputants in one place, a network state is ideologically aligned but geographically decentralized. The people are spread around the world in clusters of varying s
... See moreBalaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
The key idea is to populate the land from the cloud, and do so all over the earth. Unlike an ideologically disaligned and geographically centralized legacy state, which packs millions of disputants in one place, a network state is ideologically aligned but geographically decentralized. The people are spread around the world in clusters of varying s
... See moreBalaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
We use these tools to discuss the emergence of a new Leviathan, the Network, a contender for the most powerful force in the world, a true peer (and complement) to both God and the State as a mechanism for social organization.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Network states, in Balaji's view, are a "de-centralized center" that could create a better alternative.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Juan Orbea added
But it is the Network — the internet, the social network, and now the crypto network — that is the next Leviathan.