Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme authority over a geographic region, group of people, or oneself. In the author’s opinion, globalization is the process by which the fundamental basis of society has shifted from that of industrial production to that informational production. I agree with him. Technology has grown to hold huge power over the functioning of society. It has even come to take on a quality of a legal and judicial system.
A well-known example of this is the conflict between the legal conception of copyright and property and file sharing systems. The
In the past the struggle for liberation was over who controls the legal system, which was often determined by who had the potential to exert actual force. Today, technology often render the legal system obsolete.
Done by: zuo qi (technology expert)
http://anarchogeek.com/archives/000001.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4320000/newsid_4321500/4321511.stm
