Comments on: Seven Predictions for the Coming Age of Micronations http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2009/04/seven-predictions-and-the-coming-age-of-micronations/ Challenging your thinking, pushing your imagination, creating the future Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:32:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Strong http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2009/04/seven-predictions-and-the-coming-age-of-micronations/comment-page-1/#comment-2459 Michael Strong Thu, 07 May 2009 13:27:17 +0000 http://www.futuristspeaker.com/?p=225#comment-2459 Fantastic article, thanks, Mark, for pointing this out to me. Thomas, check out my analogous comment on free zones at "Let a Thousand Nations Bloom," http://athousandnations.com/2009/04/10/free-zones-as-an-additional-option-for-the-cambrian-explosion-in-government/ Fantastic article, thanks, Mark, for pointing this out to me. Thomas, check out my analogous comment on free zones at “Let a Thousand Nations Bloom,”

http://athousandnations.com/2009/04/10/free-zones-as-an-additional-option-for-the-cambrian-explosion-in-government/

]]> By: digestif | may 1 http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2009/04/seven-predictions-and-the-coming-age-of-micronations/comment-page-1/#comment-2428 digestif | may 1 Wed, 06 May 2009 05:10:19 +0000 http://www.futuristspeaker.com/?p=225#comment-2428 [...] Seven Predictions for the Coming Age of Micronations—FuturistSpeaker.com A newly formed island with no indigenous people and no existing structures or government becomes a perfect laboratory for experimentation. Much like an artist who positions a freshly gessoed canvas onto an easel, the inhabitants of an experimental nation-state will, through trial and error, have an opportunity to create new governmental systems from scratch. Many experiments will fail, and will have to fail in the real world, unlike the modeling being done in virtual worlds. These island countries will serve as real-world test sites for tinkering with governmental systems on a small scale. Unleashing the power of experimentation this way will give us a sense of humanity’s true potential. [...] [...] Seven Predictions for the Coming Age of Micronations—FuturistSpeaker.com A newly formed island with no indigenous people and no existing structures or government becomes a perfect laboratory for experimentation. Much like an artist who positions a freshly gessoed canvas onto an easel, the inhabitants of an experimental nation-state will, through trial and error, have an opportunity to create new governmental systems from scratch. Many experiments will fail, and will have to fail in the real world, unlike the modeling being done in virtual worlds. These island countries will serve as real-world test sites for tinkering with governmental systems on a small scale. Unleashing the power of experimentation this way will give us a sense of humanity’s true potential. [...]

]]> By: The Link Archipelago « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2009/04/seven-predictions-and-the-coming-age-of-micronations/comment-page-1/#comment-2295 The Link Archipelago « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:48:01 +0000 http://www.futuristspeaker.com/?p=225#comment-2295 [...] the cover story for the May-June cover story for The Futurist Magazine, Thomas Frey dubs nation-building the new [...] [...] the cover story for the May-June cover story for The Futurist Magazine, Thomas Frey dubs nation-building the new [...]

]]> By: Openworld http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2009/04/seven-predictions-and-the-coming-age-of-micronations/comment-page-1/#comment-2290 Openworld Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:50:59 +0000 http://www.futuristspeaker.com/?p=225#comment-2290 (2nd try for comment) Your thinking parallels what http://www.athousandnations.com and http://www.seasteading.org have been formed to promote -- I hope you'll consider a cross-posting of this article there. In the current issue of Foreign Policy, a contributor to "The Next Big Thing" foresees the re-emergence of a Hanseatic League of free cities, free zones, and micronations as great powers find it more difficult to wield hard power. The growth of free cities/free zones/micronations will accelerate if they use the Internet to help people in areas with failing states gain greater access online learning, jobs, and microloans/microgrants. This will help create a "base of the pyramid" constituency for the new free areas. Openworld (http://www.openworld.com) has been offering microvouchers and online work-study projects in impoverished regions as a precursor for such a system. As free communities emerge, they can go beyond extending new eLearning, eHealthcare, and microfinance opportunities to those whose lives are now impoverished by misrule. After the example of Lubeck and Hamburg in the first Hanseatic era, some free zones or micronations (Singapore?) may recognize the opportunity to promote the emergence of transnational bodies that offer eGovernment and arbitration systems for transparent governance in non-imperial ways. Look forward to more of your articles and posts on these opportunities! (2nd try for comment)

Your thinking parallels what http://www.athousandnations.com and http://www.seasteading.org have been formed to promote — I hope you’ll consider a cross-posting of this article there.

In the current issue of Foreign Policy, a contributor to “The Next Big Thing” foresees the re-emergence of a Hanseatic League of free cities, free zones, and micronations as great powers find it more difficult to wield hard power.

The growth of free cities/free zones/micronations will accelerate if they use the Internet to help people in areas with failing states gain greater access online learning, jobs, and microloans/microgrants. This will help create a “base of the pyramid” constituency for the new free areas. Openworld (http://www.openworld.com) has been offering microvouchers and online work-study projects in impoverished regions as a precursor for such a system.

As free communities emerge, they can go beyond extending new eLearning, eHealthcare, and microfinance opportunities to those whose lives are now impoverished by misrule. After the example of Lubeck and Hamburg in the first Hanseatic era, some free zones or micronations (Singapore?) may recognize the opportunity to promote the emergence of transnational bodies that offer eGovernment and arbitration systems for transparent governance in non-imperial ways.

Look forward to more of your articles and posts on these opportunities!

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