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A bit further on, the author explains how to start your own "network state";
"Found a startup society. This is simply an online community with aspirations of something greater. Anyone can found one, just like anyone can found a company or cryptocurrency. And the founder鈥檚 legitimacy comes from whether people opt to follow them."
#BalajiSrinivasan, 2022
https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-thousand-words
That's not a state of any kind, it's a cult.
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Thinking back, Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net is perhaps around this topic with others.
Not a novel I loved, but an early one of its sort, and part of the #evolution of #SF
Thinking back, Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net is perhaps around this topic with others.
Not a novel I loved, but an early one of its sort, and part of the #evolution of #SF
So I did a deep drive, and found a web version of the book I presume they're referring to, giving this definition;
"A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.
#BalajiSrinivasan, 2022
https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-sentence
So ... it's a distributed diplomatic entity, whose population consists entirely of landlords?
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