StrypeyListening to an interview with folks from Data and Society on the Sunday Show, a podcast of Tech Policy Press;
https://techpolicy.press/interrogating-tech-power-and-democratic-crisis
They mention the "network state", which I'd never heard of.
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So I did a deep drive, and found a web version of the book I presume they're referring to, giving this definition;
"A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.
#BalajiSrinivasan, 2022
https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-sentence
So ... it's a distributed diplomatic entity, whose population consists entirely of landlords?
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a fading echo@strypey
They appear in Neal Stephenson's dystopian SF novel Snow crash.
As does much else.
@midgephoto
> They appear in Neal Stephenson's dystopian SF novel Snow crash
Public service message; Like 1984 and Brave New World, Snow Crash was not written as an instruction manual!