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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (78045)8/20/2011 2:37:32 PM
From: arun gera1 Recommendation  Respond to of 217885
 
How is that going to change if the monopoly on violence is only with the State? Crime and punishment is still based on that. All modern states work with an implicit threat of violence or torture (jail). Any cyber state will still need a violence inducing body (military, police). Otherwise all punishments will be the cyber equivalent of a suspended driving license.

>A country has historically been a community of interest based on chimpanzee alpha male territorial found wealth kleptocratic suffocatocracy of citizen serfs in tribal dominance hierarchy with defended borders and genocidal conquest of more wealth and females. While plenty of people are trying to moderate those atavistic ways, that is still how the world runs.>



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (78045)8/20/2011 2:44:55 PM
From: arun gera  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217885
 
>The geopolitical shift is the big story which I don't think I have seen anyone else discuss.>

Yes. You are ahead of Marc on that front.

But haven't financial transaction systems, which are essentially software, already caused major shifts in the power of the State to limit or direct capital flows? Aren't these systems much bigger than all the software companies combined or even individual nations?

-Arun


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