Yeah, Balaji. Those are points that Boss Balaji made in his book, "The Networked State." The author of the article tries to make it all about the USA, but Bal

Yeah, Balaji. Those are points that Boss Balaji made in his book, "The Networked State." The author of the article tries to make it all about the USA, but Balaji's book is, rather explicitly, about a post-US future -- about innovation in self-directed governance from the ground up, in a way that is more or less neutral where existing nation states are concerned. (Which is to say that what it has to say doesn't apply to the USA any more than it might apply to Switzerland, Egypt, or Indonesia.)