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14 Sep 2006 11:49:56 PM |
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The future role of countries/ governement? |
What is the future role of the government now that the Internet has
succeeded in killing the distance between consumers and producers. What
will be the point of war when killing your neighbour will be akin to
shooting yourself in the foot?
The Internet first transformed popular culture . Now it is changing
institutions and businesses. The last thing left will be for it change
the role of government and politics.
The world will become more unified and we will see less influence of
local centralized governments. This will obviously take a few centuries
to straighten out but that is my prediction. what do you think?
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| User: "Russ Rose" |
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| Title: Re: The future role of countries/ governement? |
15 Sep 2006 05:29:36 AM |
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<veg_all@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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What is the future role of the government now that the Internet has
succeeded in killing the distance between consumers and producers. What
will be the point of war when killing your neighbour will be akin to
shooting yourself in the foot?
The Internet first transformed popular culture . Now it is changing
institutions and businesses. The last thing left will be for it change
the role of government and politics.
The world will become more unified and we will see less influence of
local centralized governments. This will obviously take a few centuries
to straighten out but that is my prediction. what do you think?
All positive societal advancement will come from the increase in human
truth.
The ability of the Internet to shine the light of truth on the political
lies is offset by the ability of the Internet to spread lies.
The fact that the Chinese government actively pursues censorship of the
Internet to maintain their lies demonstrates the potential power of such a
medium.
So far it appears the lies are winning, but I have hope that the trend will
reverse some day.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: The future role of countries/ governement? |
14 Sep 2006 11:56:06 PM |
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wrote:
What is the future role of the government now that the Internet has
succeeded in killing the distance between consumers and producers. What
will be the point of war when killing your neighbour will be akin to
shooting yourself in the foot?
The Internet first transformed popular culture . Now it is changing
institutions and businesses. The last thing left will be for it change
the role of government and politics.
The world will become more unified and we will see less influence of
local centralized governments. This will obviously take a few centuries
to straighten out but that is my prediction. what do you think?
i forgot to mention that nuclear proliferation can only be stopped by a
more unified world. the internet is succeeding in doing this i think.
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| User: "Brian Fletcher" |
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| Title: Re: The future role of countries/ governement? |
15 Sep 2006 12:59:33 AM |
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<veg_all@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1158296166.581823.47710@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
veg_...@yahoo.com wrote:
What is the future role of the government now that the Internet has
succeeded in killing the distance between consumers and producers. What
will be the point of war when killing your neighbour will be akin to
shooting yourself in the foot?
The Internet first transformed popular culture . Now it is changing
institutions and businesses. The last thing left will be for it change
the role of government and politics.
The world will become more unified and we will see less influence of
local centralized governments. This will obviously take a few centuries
to straighten out but that is my prediction. what do you think?
i forgot to mention that nuclear proliferation can only be stopped by a
more unified world. the internet is succeeding in doing this i think.
I was one of the first in Australia to be exposed to the internet,
commercially, and as a consequence, cahnged my vision of how business would
be conducted. For one thing, I saw the death of the central business
district as we know it. Why pay top dollar for inner city space, block the
roads commuting, and be communicating with your fellow workers "on line".
No doubt there are significant changes still to come, but when it all boils
down, people are people, and cultural/religious differences have outlasted
many centuries of unprecidented changes.
A big chunk of Australia is owned by overseas interests, being China,U.S.,
Japan and SE Asia generally, so it is unlikely they will "bomb" their own
interests, but hey, we all own the planet, but it doesnt stop us fouling it
up.
BOfL
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| User: "BernardZ" |
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| Title: Re: The future role of countries/ governement? |
16 Sep 2006 05:18:48 AM |
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In article <1158296166.581823.47710@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
veg_all@yahoo.com says...
i forgot to mention that nuclear proliferation can only be stopped by a
more unified world. the internet is succeeding in doing this i think.
How will a more unified world stop nuclear proliferation?
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The people that believe that the world is flat are proof that heaps of
time, huge amounts of scientific evidence, plenty of eyewitness
accounts, numerous experts opinion and mountains of photographs are not
enough to convince some people! What is particularly frustrating is
that there are many such people on the Usenet.
Observations of Bernard - No 104
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: The future role of countries/ governement? |
16 Sep 2006 02:15:21 PM |
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BernardZ wrote:
How will a more unified world stop nuclear proliferation?
i was thinking along the lines of bombing a country that is a huge
supplier of goods and services to your country. with the internet, many
countries like India provide IT services worldwide. so destroying other
countries can seriously cripple your own industries that rely on those
countries as suppliers of services and goods.
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| User: "BernardZ" |
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| Title: Re: The future role of countries/ governement? |
16 Sep 2006 11:06:51 PM |
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In article <1158434121.093778.162590@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
veg_all@yahoo.com says...
BernardZ wrote:
How will a more unified world stop nuclear proliferation?
i was thinking along the lines of bombing a country that is a huge
supplier of goods and services to your country. with the internet, many
countries like India provide IT services worldwide. so destroying other
countries can seriously cripple your own industries that rely on those
countries as suppliers of services and goods.
Don't kid yourself about any of this!
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The people that believe that the world is flat are proof that heaps of
time, huge amounts of scientific evidence, plenty of eyewitness
accounts, numerous experts opinion and mountains of photographs are not
enough to convince some people! What is particularly frustrating is
that there are many such people on the Usenet.
Observations of Bernard - No 104
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