Now there is somewhere to go. A set of protocols rather than a place on a map. A society defined not by borders but by cryptographic keys. A jurisdiction you carry in your pocket, entered by choice and exited at will.

I really want to believe this -- and the article sure gets me pumped up -- but we are still physical beings, and governments still feel the need to point guns at us and stick us in prison. I'm not sure I believe we really have somewhere else to go...yet.

The beauty of emergent order is that it cannot be designed, only discovered.

This is really good, though.