You may listen to Ben Hammersley 's( from Wired) speech too. Here's a few quotes .
..."what defines a country ? It was defined by the distance between us and them ... they're the other people that are far away. The distance defined us. This is the same for society. You know where you are in the structure of your society. There's people above you and people below you ... it was the dominant intellectual framework for the insdustrial revolution ...
It makes no sense whatsoever economically to count and say "the french economy is everything in french borders because there's a bit of France which are rich and a bit of France which are really poor and they're only french because thousands years ago it was hard to get on a horse an go further than that ...
Now, we have the wrong cognitive tools ...
The distance that made us create those countries no longer make any sense. People created dispora of interests. The death of distance has created many different forms of countries - new countries on what you're interested in, on your culture, your principles ... you have stronger ties now to people of your interests around the world than you do with your neighbors ...
Could transnational republics work ?
... the market opportunity is to do thing locally ...
