| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Three Questions about the Future: Answers from the Past | p. 2 |
| The Internet Era-and Beyond | p. 9 |
| Beyond the Information Revolution: The Singularity | p. 11 |
| Thinking about the Revolutions of the Singularity | p. 12 |
| Bounded and Unbounded Visions | p. 13 |
| Bounded and Unbounded Problems: The Space Development Example | p. 14 |
| Y2K as the Opposite Case: Mistaking Bounded for Unbounded Problems | p. 18 |
| Death and Taxes: Extending Lifespan, and Its Consequences | p. 20 |
| Taking a Possibility Seriously | p. 21 |
| How to Think about the Effects of These Revolutions: The "Pessimistic Scenario" | p. 23 |
| Industrial Goods as Software: The Next Phase of the Information Revolution, and Its Implications | p. 25 |
| Civil Society and the Hazards of the Singularity Revolutions: The Case of Nanotechnology | p. 29 |
| Civil Societies and the Economy of the Singularity | p. 31 |
| After the Economic State: The Civic State and the Network Commonwealth | p. 39 |
| Hobbes and Rousseau in Cyberspace | p. 40 |
| Limits to the Breakdown of Big Governments | p. 42 |
| The Growing Worldwide Market in Sovereignty Services and the Decline of the Monopoly of the Economic State | p. 44 |
| Linux as a Foreshadowing of the Economics of the Singularity: The End of Capitalism and the Triumph of the Market Economy | p. 47 |
| The Civic State: On the Nature and Limits of Governments in the Era of the Singularity | p. 55 |
| Building the Network Commonwealth: The Power of Self-Assembly Protocols | p. 61 |
| Political Self-Assembly Protocols: A Tool for the Singularity Revolution | p. 62 |
| A Call for Civilizational Construction | p. 65 |
| The Anglosphere and Its Revolutions | p. 67 |
| The Anglosphere and the New Understanding of the West | p. 72 |
| Reconvergence and Culture: Why the Information Revolution Is Drawing the Anglosphere Closer Together | p. 75 |
| What Is the Anglosphere? | p. 79 |
| The Fundamental Structures of the Anglosphere: States, Regions, and Cultural Nations | p. 82 |
| Cultural Nations-The Invisible Understructure | p. 83 |
| Cultural Nations and Regions: What's the Difference? | p. 84 |
| Becoming a Self-Aware Civilization: The Anglosphere Perspective | p. 89 |
| Memetic Plagues of the Anglosphere | p. 93 |
| Coming Home to the Anglosphere | p. 100 |
| Trust, Civil Society, Government, and Cyberspace | p. 109 |
| One World through the Internet? The Role of Trust, Cooperation, and Cultural Commonality | p. 113 |
| Trust and Civil Society | p. 114 |
| Trust, Reform, and the Three Gateways | p. 117 |
| One World, Many Marketplaces | p. 122 |
| The New Amphibians: Living Simultaneously in Cyberspace and the Physical World | p. 124 |
| Better Communications and the Rise of Nationalism | p. 126 |
| Space and Power: Geopolitics and the Topology of Information Space | p. 129 |
| Hanseatic Leagues in Cyberspace | p. 132 |
| The New Understanding of the Market: Rules of Thumb for Intervention | p. 135 |
| The Anarcho-Capitalist Debate and Other Red Herrings | p. 138 |
| Civic States and Large-Scale Federations | p. 141 |
| Coherent Noncontiguous States | p. 142 |
| What Will Become of Big Government Establishments? | p. 143 |
| The Civic State and The Network Commonwealth | p. 146 |
| The Sinews of the Network Commonwealth: Evolving New Forms from Existing Elements | p. 148 |
| Trade, Security, and Technology Intersect: The Case of Anglosphere Defense Cooperation | p. 159 |
| Who Will Control the Commonwealth? Popular Control of Transnational Institutions | p. 167 |
| Commonwealth or Tribalism | p. 169 |
| Network Commonwealths around the World | p. 172 |
| United Nations-or Associated Commonwealths? | p. 179 |
| The Anglosphere as a Unique Civilization | p. 181 |
| The Anglosphere Constitutional Tradition and War | p. 185 |
| Five Civil Wars: Union and Secession in the Anglosphere | p. 193 |
| Preserving the National Voice in a Decentralized World | p. 197 |
| The Anglosphere's History as the History of Its Cultural Nations | p. 199 |
| American Cultural Nations and Their Histories | p. 199 |
| The Relationship between Cultural Nations and Nation-State | p. 211 |
| Cultural Nations in Actuality: North America | p. 213 |
| Cultural Nations Elsewhere in the Anglosphere | p. 223 |
| Regions, Civic States, and Scale | p. 224 |
| The Anglosphere Century | p. 227 |
| 1776: Divergence and the End of the First Empire | p. 228 |
| Convergence in Politics: The Dilemma of the Second Empire | p. 230 |
| Potential Roadblocks to an Anglosphere Network Commonwealth | p. 233 |
| Postimperial Identity Questions in the Commonwealth States | p. 237 |
| The African Special Relationship: American Africans, the Caribbean, and Africa | p. 238 |
| Embedded Cultures, Native Nations, and Pan-Anglosphere Minorities | p. 240 |
| What's at Stake: Uses of the Network Commonwealth | p. 242 |
| Controlling Dangers, Maintaining Freedoms: Constitutional Traditions and the Technologies of the Singularity | p. 248 |
| Common Law and Common Markets: Harmony without Homogenization | p. 250 |
| The Anglosphere Debate | p. 251 |
| Moving toward an Anglosphere Network Commonwealth | p. 257 |
| Doing Their Part: Leadership and the Emergence of the Network Commonwealth | p. 257 |
| Devolution and the Neverendum in Scotland and Quebec | p. 258 |
| African America: The Stalled Transition to High Trust | p. 261 |
| Prospects for the Anglosphere | p. 263 |
| Canada and Le Project Trudeau | p. 264 |
| Quebec and the Nine Provinces: Two Nations and Two Network Civilizations | p. 266 |
| Britain: Scotland and the West Lothian Question; The Euro and the Westphalian Question | p. 268 |
| The United States and the Anglosphere: From Post-Cold War Reorientation to the Challenge of the Singularity | p. 274 |
| South Africa: What Form of Union? | p. 277 |
| Australia and New Zealand: Identity in Oceania | p. 278 |
| Ireland: What Price the EU? | p. 280 |
| Trade and Defense Drivers for the Network Commonwealth | p. 283 |
| The Anglosphere as the "Offshore Island" | p. 285 |
| The Anglosphere and the Challenge of the Singularity | p. 287 |
| Annotated Bibliography | p. 291 |
| Index | p. 321 |
| About the Author | p. 337 |
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