Network States

The "network" in network state should stand for network effect, which is how all states form: they marshal resources created by network effects and maintain control of them.

Technology has created opportunities for new kinds of network effects and eroded old ones — implying that there could be new kinds of states.

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How do you define a “state” here?

Usually there is a govt, laws, economy and borders. 

Geography can be thrown out as a limiting factor, so we just dropping borders?

Like in Euclid’s axioms if you drop the 5th you get a new landscape of possibilities.