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To: paul_philp who wrote (67752)	1/22/2003 10:28:05 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

<BTW, I consider OBL and Al Qaeda as an exemplar of a new form of institution - a pseudo-nation based on ideas not geography. We will need to evolve some form of global governance where the idea of self-interest exists at a higher order than the cumulative self-interests of the members.> Good point Paul. I already consider myself part of a pseudo-nation along those lines [a half-caste if not full-blooded]. One of the pseudo-nations will be the cyberspace people. Those of us with global cyberspace interests do not have the same interests as our compatriots who are terrestrially based. I expect we will form the biggest nation and certainly the wealthiest and therefore most powerful in 10 or 20 years. Many people are internationally mobile or have international perspectives. We'll be symbiotic with cyberspace which will have its own interests, just as territorial entities conceive of their own interests. As cyberspace becomes more powerful in its own right, and smarter [it already remembers more than anyone, using its Google memory banks] and more perceptive [automatic sensory inputs are increasing dramatically], we cyberspacoids will be symbiotic with it initially, then parasitic and eventually cast off from it. It will have developed from a zygote to the Zeitgeist. A bit like humans developed from chimpoid ancestors who provided the mould for our DNA to develop, but fell by the wayside as we went off on our own trajectory using proliferating neurons. Mqurice