# Post State Technocracy

Rufus Pollock and Stephen Diehl do a deep dive into the Silicon Valley utopian ideas of crypto assets and explore the notion that crypto assets are a means to create a new form of network state outside of the existing international order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ0iCJkM3PU

## Topic
[post-state-technocracy](../concepts/ideologies/post-state-technocracy.md)

## Concepts Covered

* [post-state-technocracy](post-state-technocracy.md)
* [cryptoanarchism](../concepts/ideologies/cryptoanarchism.md)
* [technosolutionism](../concepts/ideologies/technosolutionism.md)
* [public-goods-problem](../concepts/public-goods-problem.md)
* [narrative-economics](../concepts/narrative-economics.md)
* [public-goods-problem](../concepts/public-goods-problem.md)
* [free-rider-problem](../concepts/free-rider-problem.md)
* [private-money](../concepts/private-money.md)

## Summary
#todo 

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