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The Past, Present, and Future of Passports
CHAPTER 11 THE FUTURE OF NATIONS
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
What Technological Developments underpin the Modern Nation State System? We don’t typically think of mapmaking, printing, and shooting as novel activities, because the underlying technologies were invented so many generations ago. But they were each foundational to our modern concept of states with borders, where men with guns enforce written laws.