I fully grok the idea of network states as online phenomena.

I struggle with their transition to the physical world.

The assumption is people we’re close to digitally are the same people we’d choose to live close to physically. 

In my experience the overlap is small at best. 

What am I missing?

I felt this way, too, after reading the book.

On Friday, I arrived back in the 🇺🇸 and there was 1 customs agent clearing hundreds of passengers.

Appetite for a competently administered jurisdiction went way up.