- Gurgaon
- Charter City in Honduras
- Friedmanite Seasteading
- Anonymous
- Bitcoin
- Silk Road
By 2100, barring singularity, at least 5 of the top 10 cities in the world (Measeure by PPP GDP/QoL, Freedom Index) to live will be city-states/autonomous zones. Singapore, Hong Kong were just round one. In the next 90 years, they explode, win.
The questions:
- Will some of them be in the US?
- Will any of them abolish Patent protection entirely?
- Should we count mini-states with the same population as a large city? (Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland all have population < NYC)?
- How bad will the nation-state backlash be (US, China, esp.) when they find out they're backwards has-beens who can't compete.
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I'm rooting for this, Artea, but I'm not so sanguine as you. Gurgaon/Seasteading et al exist adjacent to the current welfare/plutacracy. I'm not sure they exist on their own without becoming "same as the old boss."
Singapore/Hong Kong were/are pretty closed shop in a lot of ways. Lots of in group rules to follow.
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