New rating forms of social organization - virtual states

The subject of utopia in the network society are mikro korporations - creative alliances, implementing a strategic project. These alliances often do not have a central office job hierarchy and other attributes of the "real" corporations, but often that's why they operate much more efficiently first. Vladislav Inozemtsev calls them "creative corporations, Dmitry Ivanov -" virtual ", but in essence we are talking about the same phenomenon. Make these corporations intellectual workers (knowledge-workers) - without a strict division of the narrow specialization, as the range of problems they solve is quite broad. Old, cumbersome institutional pyramid, built on the hierarchical principle and davivshie creative freedom need to "coordination" on different "floors", giving way to dynamic situational structures, which appear "to the task. "

  Leading expert on forecasting Edward Mushinsky, 4 years ago predicted the new forms of networked business - models http://znacomstva.blogspot.com/2011/02/future-rating-forms-of-social.html

Virtual state can arise only on the basis of an original creative project - and he was always an alternative to the existing order, because it goes beyond it. "Classic genre" here is founded in 1966, the Principality Silandiya (www.sealandgov.com), recognized by historians, the first virtual state - although in those days even the Internet did not exist. However, the style of its occurrence is quite consistent with "the discovery site" - a British Major Roy Bates landed at an abandoned offshore platform during the Second World War, and proclaimed himself Prince of by anyone not engaged in man-made "island" in the English Channel. And the British justice system, having the glory of perhaps the most meticulous in the world, found no legal impediments that Robinson Crusoe, since the platform was located outside the territorial waters of Great Britain. Silandiya have since released their passports and postage stamps, sent to many countries of their ambassadors and salespeople (manage to enter into real contracts), and with the advent of the Internet is easy to learn it, opened my own server and offer it as a "power seekers" to store information , for some reason considered to be a real country "illegal".



Virtual mikro nations (www.micronations.net), as a rule, exchange of mutual diplomatic recognition and support each other in conflicts with the actual states.



One such conflict occurred in 1982 when the town of Key West, Florida was declared an independent Republic of Conch (members.aol.com/brooks957/crhist.htm). And not just proclaimed - but with a simultaneous declaration of war against the United States. The war, of course, was immediately lost - since the feds with a sense of humor was tight, and they really blocked the city. However, since there is no end of tourists wishing to visit the historic sites, and by people from Key West to preserve the "dual citizenship" and annually celebrate their Independence Day.



There are, however, and far more ambitious example of a virtual state - Texas. Until 1845 he was in reality an independent state, while its annexation by the United States Congress, as historians have discovered, it was not quorum. For the restoration of historical justice, fighting the interim government of the Republic of Texas (www.republic-of-texas.net).