Original Article on Wired Magazine

wpautop enabled *Its hard to believe they could be more sclerotic than what weve got.*On the other hand, given the historical behavior of Italian city-states, man, I have to wonder. All I need is some Milanese Sforzas with catapults at the gates of Torino. It took the ultra-wealthy some real effort to completely subvert and own governments, but in Medici Florence that was what it was about from the get-go. Hello, Mayor Bloomberg! Thanks for the public-art!From: Stewart Brand Subject: [SALT] City-based global governance (Benjamin Barber talk)Sovereign nation states have conspicuously failed to cooperate well enough to deal with increasingly global problems such as climate change, environmental degradation, and organized crime, Barber said. N...(read more)