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No Consensus on Future of Nation-State
March 08, 2010
We asked IEET readers what new paradigm might emerge in the 21st century to replace the nation-state, and the situation is clearly murky.
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Posted by Giulio Prisco on 03/08 at 01:37 PM
If an intergalactic federation will rule over our little provincial planet... I would consider it as a very bad example of globalist oppression of minorities, and I will be the first to enroll my shiny new robotic body in the Space Defense Forces. 
Posted by jhughes on 03/08 at 01:41 PM
Resistance is futile Giulio. The glorious forces of galactic socialism will collectivize your carbon in nanoseconds. Swear allegiance and you can have a dacha in the Oort cloud.
Posted by Giulio Prisco on 03/08 at 02:19 PM
Fat chance. We will dissolve the Grand Galactic invasion forces with computronium-eating replicant nanobots. The Earth to its posthuman children! Give me Freedom, or give me Death (with a safe mindfile backup of course). From now on, call me Colonel Nano.
Posted by Hervé Musseau on 03/09 at 05:17 AM
I'm currently reading Snow Crash, and it's impressive how the combination of city-states / corporations / mafias / anarchy / individualism that serves as a backdrop for this early cyberpunk novel, is resonating as false and unlikely. A passé vision of a dystopic, fractioned future inspired by American libertarianism.
Posted by Julian Morrison on 03/10 at 07:35 AM
We'll get a super-AI probably in the next 20 years. If we are very lucky, we'll get the SIAI CEV sort, and it will behave something like a new more benign set of laws of physics / human nature, and government will become vestigial or obsolete through a lack of conflict. Otherwise, government will become obsolete because there won't be humans.
Posted by postfuturist on 03/11 at 09:17 AM
The future of the family is even more important than the future of territorialism, what we sanitizedly call "patriotism / nationalism"
Posted by postfuturist on 05/06 at 03:28 AM
"A passé vision of a dystopic, fractioned future inspired by American libertarianism-- Hervé Musseau, Paris". Herve' doesn't realize how he is onto something: those in France don't realize how many rightwing libertarians exist in America: TOO many; libertarianism is to be better savored in a very small dose; a libertarian's absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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