Network States

the rise of network states is an early indicator, barely legible today, of the inevitable exponential curve of government and civil service automation and the privatization of public infra.

the speed at which digital communities will acquire land and infrastructure is a function of the cost to build and govern approaching zero.

These systems built with efficiency instead of sheer power in mind will overtake the current world order. 

Conventional wisdom says China is gonna be the next superpower, and maybe they will be the leaders of the centralized world, but over the coming decades, that way of global organization will fade into irrelevancy for the people and entities blazing the trail of the future.