{"id":132,"date":"2015-09-14T11:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/?p=132"},"modified":"2016-08-17T22:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T02:34:23","slug":"in-life-imitates-snow-crash-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/2015\/09\/14\/in-life-imitates-snow-crash-news\/","title":{"rendered":"In Life-Imitates-Snow-Crash News&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/factor-tech.com\/feature\/e-residency-the-power-to-choose-your-nation\/\">E-residency: The power to choose your nation<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  At the time of writing, the e-residency project has just come out of its beta stage and has been fully live for two months. During the 60 days more than 4,000 people have signed up to become members, doubling the target number that was set for twelve months. Kotka may be getting carried away when he suggests that \u201chundreds of thousands, or millions will come after three or four years\u201d but there is an element of truth to his words when he says that the scheme has \u201calready found its place in history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>  By paying a paltry 50 euro fee anyone, anywhere in the world, is able to become an e-Estonian. You don\u2019t become a resident of the country and it doesn\u2019t allow any rights to move to the country, but it allows you to become a digital citizen and, as such, removes some national borders.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to a future where I can use an app to gain citizenship to <em>Mr. Lee&#8217;s Greater Hong Kong<\/em> or, at least become an annoying Brooklynite without having to move to Brooklyn. Plus you know that Elon Musk is eyeing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Principality_of_Sealand\">Sealand<\/a> for his startup virtual nation-state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-residency: The power to choose your nation At the time of writing, the e-residency project has just come out of its beta stage and has been fully live for two months. During the 60 days more than 4,000 people have signed up to become members, doubling the target number that was set for twelve months. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/2015\/09\/14\/in-life-imitates-snow-crash-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Life-Imitates-Snow-Crash News&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}