Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Nicholas Negroponte

... to secure consumer data in an increasingly globalized world ... disband the United Nations and start over again. ... the post-World War II institution wasn't built to address the challenges of the digital age. ... the opposite of global is national. ... I look at nationalism as a disease.

Nations, as we know them today, will erode because they are neither big enough to be global nor small enough to be local. The evolutionary life of the nation-state will turn out to be far shorter than that of the pterodactyl. Local governance will abound. A united planet is certain, but when is not.

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