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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (124350)	2/4/2004 6:53:59 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Think of the globalisation effects which have already happened. Think of the human migrations and global communications and corporate integration. Now this is what I agree with Maurice... Globalization will, eventually, reduce the importance of sovereign borders and unify the earth's population... But there are some powerful interests who both wish to preserve their current power, or who seek to dominate and control the pace and extent of globalization.. But that's like trying to control a greased pig, or maybe even water... The tighter you squeeze, the faster it slips beyond your control.. And that means we're going to have some friction between competing entities, some governmental, some corporate, some clans, and most of all demographic and cultural.. As Friedman's book eloquently states, it's the battle between "The Lexus and the Olive tree". (which I highly recommend). Hawk

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (124350)	2/5/2004 7:09:20 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

<It would be nice to think that Billions of people could come together into one big, happy, international family... But the odds are greatly against it. > Hawk, I'd say that process has been continuing to develop for a century. I actually agree with you on this, but the pace that the people of the world have been coming together is both slow and irregular with almost as many steps back as forward. In centuries to come anything might happen but unless medical science greatly increases the span of a human life I don't think anyone posting on this thread will be alive to see a real world government. What might push it to happen sooner would be a common threat from outside of the earth, either aliens or human colonies in space that become strong and independent but we won't be strong enough to resist aliens with the technology to move between stars, or advanced enough to have powerful extra-terrestrial colonies for a long time. Tim