> nothing (and surely not naive techno-optimism) prevents it from coming to the West.
Well, if you stop dividing people into "West" and not West, and consider the whole world without artificial borders as just humanity, it's already the case.
Well, if you stop dividing people into "West" and not West, and consider the whole world without artificial borders as just humanity, it's already the case.
That said, the world is not without borders, artificial or not, so it's not wise to see it as such in determining the future. It might be wise to want to abolish those borders (and that remains to be proven -- empires are even less democratic than nation states, and civil wars are just as bloody, if not more, than wars between states), but not to live in la-la-land where they don't exist.