Some argue that countries can choose for themselves what is lawful within their own cyberborders -- that just because the world is becoming networked, all nations need not adhere to American free-speech traditions.
Humans are the winning species because we network -- nations, corporations, and money are networks.
When organizing their networks, nations and individuals make decisions based on local needs and priorities.
"The United States reserves the right to respond to intrusions into government, military and national infrastructure information systems and networks by nations, terrorist groups or other adversaries in a manner it deems appropriate," said one senior Pentagon official.
"Knowledge, Networks and Nations," a recent study by the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national science academy, concluded that China would overtake the US in published scientific output by 2013.
"Globalization is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and peoples," he said.
Networks outstrip nations that are left playing catch-up, like those long-haired Argentines chasing trim German shadows.
Do Scots want to huddle behind the clumsy, centralised British bureaucracy, or join the network of nations?
But regulatory authority over its members can be as confusing as in the rest of the cruise world, with a network of nations, flags and maritime rules colliding.
Global Change And American Leadership To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization.
