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What is it about? Can you write a breif summary?
It is about the changes that microprocessors (and the internet) evoke on the systems that our society is based on.
It reflects on past periods in history where technological revolutions took place, how it shook the way we dealt with violence (by use of government), and how those transitioning periods into new eras looked like. An example would be when the church was government and the printing press radically altered the systems that society was based on.
It extrapolates those past disruptions and the effects on us as how we live as humans into the future to predict how the new era will look like. It was written around 1996-1997 and predicted e-commerce, crypto/blockchain and a rise in nationalism (brexit/trump).
The book predicts that because of the emerging cybereconomy, nation-states will have trouble taxing their citizens and devaluing currency to sustain their bloated expenses as a welfare state. This will ultimately lead to the fall of the nation-state as we know of. After a transition crisis a new era will emerge called the information age, where sovereign individuals will be the norm.
This is a very concise summary, because the book has a lot of depth.
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