The Network State

“I want to see startup societies along these kinds of visions exist. I want to see immersive lifestyle experiments around healthy living. I want to see crazy governance experiments.”

Vitalik devoted a full blog post to reviewing Balaji's book. He concludes that network states 'with some modifications that push for more democratic governance' are a vision he can get behind.

“Many have had the experience of hearing him say something, thinking it was crazy, and then a year or two later realizing 'Balaji was right'”

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“The future convergence of networks and governments, from one of the most brilliant thinkers alive.”

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“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I've ever met.”

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Startup Societies reading: Balaji's own blueprint for founding new countries online first, the capstone of the curriculum.