But perhaps if they don’t go away entirely, they’ll 
be reduced to to the level of symbolic kings or 
something, who are ratifying the consensus that 
the network community arrives at. So yeah, I think 
that interactivity, networking is going to radically 
reshape how we think about politics and how we 
relate to government. The government institutions 
themselves, centralized governments are going to 
go away. Power is going to be diffused out 
through the system and new mechanisms and new 
consensus are going to develop.


Q:  Can we make a smooth transition from here to