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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (6177)	9/1/1999 6:07:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

New media and communication technologies will result in greater decentralisation and blur national boundaries. This was stated by Discovery Channel CEO Kiran Karnik, while addressing a seminar on emerging perspectives in the Indian media industry, organised by the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, here on Wednesday. According to Mr Karnik, developments in media and communication technologies will lead to the emergence of "cyber states" and virtual communities and spell the end of nation states. "Communities will be linked thematically and not geographically or spatially. Geography is history. Terrains don?t exist," he said. I have read another commentator refer to this as the "fourth dimension" which he also terms as the era of "placelessness". In the future, communities will be linked together in mesh-like formations. Gone are the days of hierarchic structures. The author refers to those countries fighting hell and highwater to supposedly "protect their borders" as countries that are "languishing in the second dimension", and adds that the days when national borders were important, and expanding the borders was the sole measure of success of a nation, are long gone. Anybody who thinks along those lines (like the RSS/VHP fruitcakes, who still dream of "Akhand Bhaarat", encompassing vast stretches of south-east Asia, not to mention Pakistan and portions of central and western Asia) is living in the 17th or 18th centuries...