In a world of superabundance, people have much more to lose than they do to gain in warfare. I don't think that the nation state can restrict the ultimate power of the individual because we live in a world of porous borders. Ray Kurzweil's prediction is 2029; Elon Musk says AI will be vastly more powerful than humans by 2025. We're not talking about 30 years from now. The other blog looks at exponential technologies, 3D printing, synthetic biology, AR, VR and blockchain.

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