> A few years ago, this type would have been a believer in the upcoming "singularity."

The belief that technology will usurp governments is more than "a few years old" (the cyphernomicon was written in 1994).

> The belief that technology will usurp governments is more than "a few years old"

What the article writer is talking about is not technology per se, but a new social structure. Which is just the same "nothing new under the sun" phenomenon if you look back in history. The printing press (another disrupting technology) helped usher in modern democracy and eventually the corporation, but they still suffered the same ills prior organizational structures like the church or the kingdom did. "Platforms" will not make the bad parts of human nature go away.