Another take on nations and states
Jeff Jarvis on Google as a state. I personally agree it’s closer to a nation, but as with most other things getting lumped into that argument, it’s new wine in old bottles – we have a really hard time realizing that non-nation and non-state actors are the fastest growing world powers.
I note how Zeit Online calls Google a quasi-state — in a post under the headline “The Google Republic” — and Fallows says Google “broke diplomatic relations with China” as if Google were a nation.