What I think is that we now have some de facto tech organizations taking part of the role of international government.<p>In my mind, international government actually is necessary. But I don't think it is actually going to work as a traditional government and I don't think it's going to work as a set of de facto tech organizations that the governments fight with.<p>What I think can possibly work is one of Buterin's suggestions: decentralized protocols.<p>I actually believe that a path for global security, sustainability, and sanity is a "world government" that we evolve through shared decentralized protocols. And that governance including information distribution regulation, to be effective, will need to be tied into money in the form of sophisticated cryptocurrency.<p>I'm not saying this is easy. Traditionally government has been incredibly bad. But leaving things to private technopolies is just not a solution that can work out for the public good. And it definitely isn't going to integrate with any sort of democratic or other governmental model.<p>I think the starting point needs to be something like package registries. So the government is just providing a metaframework for sharing protocols and certain guidelines or constraints.
Otherwisee it is too hard to evolve and people get stuck with old ineffective protocols.