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This depresses me greatly. Is this inevitable?
by myko 8y ago
This depresses me greatly. Is this inevitable?
- TeMPOraL 8y agoAt this point it feels like a race between getting a global government vs. splitting up the Internet. Sadly, the latter is much more likely.
- dzhiurgis 8y ago99% of people would tremble just from hearing Global Government
- remir 8y agoI guess it depends how far in the future we're looking. Seems like, long term, the formation of a global government is inevitable if we take in consideration global resource management, climate change and environmental degradation.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoIf you look at what is going on in the EU and the Euro problems it seems people don't have much of an appetite for it. Even the US struggles with reconciling the different requirements of local and federal government. Unless we have WW3 and somebody wins.
- remir 8y agoToday is one thing, but in 2050, 2080, things could be vastly different.
- patrickg_zill 8y agoIt's inevitable because of the evil people who promote it. A little more cynicism and skepticism about politicians' motives is in order, I think.
- fooker 8y agoIt would take a major world event, in the scale of an alien invasion, to get a world government.
- toast0 8y agoSatellite delivered internet gives you the internet of the country where the ground station lives. There are some companies trying to push a global coverage satellite internet vision, I don't find the current push very promising, but it's possible. China, Russia, or the US probably have the clout to demand a global service not operate above it, but Turkey, Libya, Egypt probably can't.