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A 10 page overview of the impacts of technology on natinal sovereignty. The contention is presented that technological innovations in communications, the Internet, and transportation have not only made the world a smaller place, they have facilitated a break down in nationalistic tendencies and, consequently, national sovereignty. Bibliography lists sources.
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the strong belief in country and culture, is in reality an ideology. It is an ideology which has shaped the face of the world as we see it today.
One cultural group after another has risen up to proclaim themselves a nation in a national liberation movement which has escalated over time. As a consequence, national lines
of demarcation have been formed which reflected a certain political sovereignty. Nationalistic ideologies, however, are impacted by a number of factors as is national sovereignty. One of the
most influential of these factors is the recent technological innovations in communication and transportation. Technology as a whole can have a
phenomenal impact on national sovereignty. In "The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions" author Freeman Dyson argues that the introduction of technology like the telescope
during the scientific revolution and the computer in modern times have had a tremendous effect on both the social and political realms of our world. Freeman (1999) emphasizes that
a world characterized by solar energy, genetic engineering, and the Internet, is a world in which the potential exists for wealth and power to be more equally distributed. At
the same time technology allows the more equal distribution of political ideology and ultimately impacts national sovereignty itself. According to Freeman (1999) such
technological innovations in communication and transportation in particular have the ability to make the world more consolidated and connected. Under such views there would indeed be a decrease in
such political ideologies as nationalism as there would be less social isolation and ignorance of other places and cultures. The consequence of this relationship translates into a deemphasis of
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