Contemporary · Worldview & Futurism · Book
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg · 1997
"The Information Age will dissolve the nation-state's power and empower mobile, digitally-sovereign individuals."
Written in 1997, this prophetic book argues that the information age will destroy the nation-state. Just as the printing press destroyed the monopoly of the Church, cryptographic technology and the internet will destroy the state's monopoly on violence and taxation.
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