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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (64812)	6/10/2005 8:06:37 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Maurice, I admire your persistence in a view that everyone keeps repeating, but never truly believing it. Maybe it was the dot.com crash that left only the true believers. Surprisingly, the Internet and its hosted applications (the new organisms) have a life of their own and seem to be getting richer and more complex. To move to the next step away from the geographical nation state model, how do you visualize the working of a cyberstate? Nation states sometimes seem like protection rackets. How would the cyberstate protection racket work? Will it have an army and a police larger than the nation states? Will this cyberstate protect the contracts agreed upon by its members? What will be the nature of crime and punishment? How much ever you deny geography, the physical punishment of being in a confined geographical location (a prison cell) is what deters some crime. -Arun >Also, empires and nations are communities of interest, traditionally based on geography when land was the primary means of production, with the eons-old territoriality built into brains during hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary battle. Now, land is not quite, but almost irrelevant.>

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