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New season of the Network State podcast. https://t.co/xZLZH4dsik We may need to rebuild civilization from scratch. But where? Bitcoin offers an answer: everywhere and nowhere. After all, it’s a decentralized currency, knit together by the Internet. Both the mining datacenters and the Bitcoiners themselves are spread out all over the world. We can generalize this concept from currency to *community*. Take all the deindustrialized towns, abandoned villages, and empty culdesacs around the world. Many of these places are newly empty because of falling fertility and deindustrialization. But you can populate them with digital nomads, and connect them with the global Internet. If you do, the result is the fractal frontier. Here’s me and @friedberg on the idea. The British — perhaps more than any single other culture — are perfectly suited for venturing forth from Britain and setting up startup societies anywhere in the world. So: assume London is over, for now. And set up New London elsewhere. Ideally by connecting many distributed New Londons, as if all the Chinatowns of the world were part of one commercial network. Patriotic to what? If they’re patriotic to a people, then the specific place doesn’t matter as much. They can reassemble somewhere else on the earth. Like hitting a fire alarm to exit a burning building, and reassembling at a muster point.