Now suddenly, users will pull on information, directly or through the aegis of their intelligent agents. The media kingdom just turned inside out. Copyright law will disintegrate. Digital money will be issued by mom and pop organizations. The very purposes of the nation-state are at question.
Countries are an artifact of the industrial age.
Many are affluent members of the first world. In fact, the third world can and is leap frogging the telecommunications infrastructure of developed nations. A lot more than you think. User issues in the Multimedia Revolution . Proceedings of a BT funded symposium at Hintlesham, Suffolk, March 1994.