I think your analysis is largely correct. Fundamentally, the idea of a network state is a relatively inductive synthesis of the plausible emergent dynamics of s

I think your analysis is largely correct. Fundamentally, the idea of a network state is a relatively inductive synthesis of the plausible emergent dynamics of several new technologies. Specifically, crypto and VR/AR seem to be important pillars given the degree they will allow you to "shim" and inductively hill climb many of the moving parts of a country-scale society before the country needs to go physical. (For example, a fully modelled 3D world citizens are already de facto living in, as well as a robust, well developed economy among them and external trade partners.) It's really hard (for me) to predict what the terminal stable state looks like. Trying to predict for example just the current tokenization going on in crypto at the time of the Bitcoin genesis block would have been extremely difficult. (Not to mention DeFi and other downstream financial implications.)