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Description

Technology has enabled us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we use it to start new cities, or even new countries? This book explains how to build the successor to the nation state, a concept we call the network state.

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Quickstart

Preamble

The Network State in One Image

The Network State in One Sentence

The Network State in One Thousand Words

The Network State in One Essay

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History as Trajectory

Prologue

Microhistory and Macrohistory

Political Power and Technological Truth

God, State, Network

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The Tripolar Moment

NYT, CCP, BTC

The Dated and the Timeless

A Bipolar America and a Tripolar Triangle

Moral Power, Martial Power, Money Power

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Decentralization, Recentralization

The Possible Futures

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From Nation States to Network States

Why Now?

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Appendix

Acknowledgments