The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
因此,国家并非自古以来就存在。曾经有一些社会没有国家,对国家或国家权力毫无概念。在一定的经济发展阶段,这必然与社会分裂成阶级有关,国家变成了一种必要性。