Appendices offer advice to ''Sovereign Individuals'' (members of the information elite) on how to invest, find tax shelters, avoid criminals and list one's business on the World Wide Web. Energy Secretary Grant Shapps says Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer wants to re-open the Brexit settlement while Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Sophy. James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age.

The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming. James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age. Davidson and Rees-Mogg, who publish Strategic Investment, a financial newsletter, present an apocalyptic exercise that is unconvincing. The basic causes of change are precisely those that are not subject to conscious control. In their forecast, citizenship will become obsolete new forms of sovereignty reminiscent of medieval merchant republics will spring up electronic plebiscites will decide legislative proposals mafias, renegade covert agencies and criminal gangs will exercise much more behind-the-scenes power. They further predict that the next millennium will see an enormous decline in the influence of politicians, lobbyists, labor unions and regulated professions as new information technologies democratize talent and innovation and decentralize the workplace. The computer revolution, in the authors' dire scenario, will subvert and destroy the nation-state as globalized cybercommerce, lubricated by cybercurrency, drastically limits governments' powers to tax.

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