Saturday, August 12th, 2006
THE COMING OF THE VIRTUAL NATION
Adrienne Redd, writing at Conversation Base Blog:
“It evokes science fiction to envision voluntary alliances networked across vast distances which challenge traditional nation-states, but it is already happening. Globalization, terrorism and events of the past five days, the past five weeks and the past five decades suggest that the nation-state may be undergoing the greatest shift since its emergence in Europe. Many of these pressures on the nation-state arise from what we could call virtual nations. The established nation-states must respond to these emergent entities or face the consequences.”
Read Adrienne’s post in full here.
