How many people die planetwide every year?

We refer to that ultimate disease of cooperation: war. (You will understand war much better if you think of it, not simply as strife come to a ~ head, but rather as a disease, or perversion of communion. Modern war characteristically re-quires a myriad of constructive acts for each de-i.tructive one; before each culminating blast there must be a vast network of interlocking opera-tions, directed communally.)

These trends: centralization, regulation, and globalization are accelerating. And they will define the future of our communications network, unless something dramatic changes.