Yes, this is the Gilder who once argued we don't need cities anymore. With the unleashing of a global spiral of growth and progress, a new cultural era is at hand. . . . The true vision of the 21st Century will become prevalent in a rich and expansive culture, spread around the globe by the Internet. Good sentence structure. Total utopian hogwash.
Realists know better.
The end of the nation-state, the political cornerstone of Gilder et al's politics could only yield a brutal oligarchist imperial struggle and wholesale depopulation of the planet. If we let it happen, that is. Reality has a way of imposing itself on dreamer's virtual worlds. Let's make sure that the realists figure out what's going on and take charge of this mess or we'll all be meeting on the comet's tail before long. Dream on, telecosmos dwellers.