The authors premise the book around the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, a set of treaties that ended Europe's 30 Years' War and established state sovereignty as the principle for international relations. That should remind good-governance types that, beyond the bubble of ideas, the world's resources and territories are still very much controlled through the brute force of nation-state legality. The more such communities pop up in coming decades, the more these technologies should advance—and the more obsolete that legacy nation-states will look in comparison.
Author: Scott Beyer
Published at: 2025-09-15 21:15:46
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