The feeling of geopolitics shifting under my feet always cheers me up, it's one of the few things about the future that gives me hope. Yesterday's ash pile is t

The feeling of geopolitics shifting under my feet always cheers me up, it's one of the few things about the future that gives me hope. Yesterday's ash pile is today's hegemon. It adds long term fairness to the international system (every nation gets it's 15 minutes of power). The question is how long can this constant table turning last, it probably will not survive once 90% of the nations reach parity of development. What gives me nightmares is what a competent authoritarian state, corporation or network could do with present technology. Think Stalin with the capabilities of the NSA or Hitler with a first rate human genomics and sequencing program. Such a power could actually accomplish their insane ideas of racial (kill everyone that has these three SNPs) or ideological purity (kill everyone that thinks the government is doing a bad job).