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Analyzing Balaji Srinivasan’s Book - The Network State
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?
In the twenty-first century the individual is more likely to disintegrate gently from within than to be brutally crushed from without. Today most corporations and governments pay homage to my individuality, and promise to provide medicine, education and entertainment customised to my unique needs and wishes. But in order to do so, corporations and
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
The internet-ification of our lives is not a response to the hostility of the built environment to communal life but a continuation and intensification of that hostility.
Celine Nguyen • In Defense of San Francisco
9. Companies, cities, currencies, communities, and countries are all becoming networks: We should start thinking of collections of people—whether communities, cities, companies, or countries—as cohesive agents unto themselves, less constrained by territoriality and with different layers aligned with one another in shifting combinations.
Parag Khanna • Great Protocol Politics
many of the social functions that community structures once fulfilled: security, dispute resolution, and the allocation of collective social capital.
Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart contract, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and a
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