There are hundreds of firms in the Silicon Valley and elsewhere that already have a greater capacity to wage a cyberwar than 90 percent of the existing nationstates.

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Historically, the key to military success was to control territory. All military threats have formed locally.

“Good jobs" will be a thing of the past. A "good job," as Princeton economist Orly Ashenfelter put it, "is a job that pays more than you are worth.”

“The Information Revolution will make it much less important whether governments are able to function capably.

The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming

Weakened by the challenge from technology the state will treat increasingly autonomous individuals its former citizens with the same range of ruthlessness and diplomacy it has heretofore displayed in its dealing with other governments.

It is no coincidence that most of the "witches" of the early modern period were widows or unmarried women with few resources. They terrorized their neighbors with curses that not infrequently moved those neighbors to pay up.

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This new form of money will reset the odds, reducing the capacity of the world's nationstates to determine who becomes a Sovereign Individual.

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Few are inclined to imagine that apparently minor changes in climate or technology or some other variable can somehow be responsible for severing connections to the world of their fathers. The Romans were reluctant to acknowledge the changes unfolding around them. So are we.

Efficiency will rapidly become more important than the dictates of power in the organization of social institutions

In an environment where the greatest source of wealth will be the ideas you have in your head rather than physical capital alone, anyone who thinks clearly will potentially be rich.

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The capacity of nationstates to redistribute income on a large scale will collapse. Information technology facilitates dramatically increased competition between jurisdictions.

The Sovereign Individual explores the social and financial consequences of this revolutionary change. Our desire is to help you to take advantage of the opportunities of the new age and avoid being destroyed by its impact.

It should not be forgotten that governments waste resources on a large scale.