Borders

Borders within an informational context are the points where two different information processing environments (states) meet. In the analogue world these are visible (or can at least be drawn on a map). In the digital world, because its development still remains unclear, specifically delineated state borders do not (yet) exist. Instead, because the territory of a state in the digital world is the information processing environment created by that state’s Beings, digital state borders are dynamic, following (and protecting, see §17.00.16) this development. In both cases borders are the points where state sovereignty ends and the sovereignty of another state begins. They are the points where a specific information processing environment ends, the point where a state no longer controls the information processing operations in either the analogue or the digital world. Obviously, in the digital world some state borders extend well into (make forays into) what would otherwise be perceived as the (analogue-world) territory of another (that state’s citizens, located in its analogue-world territory, having become users). This is modern-world (digital) colonialism.

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