I'm at the #thenetworkschool ns.com the initiation of a pop-up city where society-as-a-service is being developed. People can now opt into, by their own consent, new societies that, in the digital age, form on the Internet.

Until now, societies formed on land and became countries with GEOGRAPHIC borders, citizenship, governments and passports.

THE INTERNET is new kind of country, with borderless passports, consensual membership and distributed governance.

However, members of the Internet need a physical place to live. A cloud-first country such as The Network State then spreads its roots on land, and a man-made island (like Forest City) appears ideal because there are no cultural or historical territory claims on it.

If artificial islands can be built for as little as a billion dollars, they can be crowdfunded by a certain number of people... who grow their society and its economy in the cloud first.

I've always been firmly positive about the future, even in the darkest of times, because I known that the visionaries and techno-optimists are building a better world. I studied Bitcoin so I could join them.

For nearly a decade, I physically isolated myself in remote Australia and found my aligned people online. Now I'm surrounded by other techno-optimists in-person every day!

I like this matrix that Balaji mentioned during his lecture to us this week, to visualise what is still unexplored.