I HAVE COMPLETED MY PhD!

Of course, there is some small print....

With writing up section 4-2 under the title of "A Network of Isocratic Republics", I have completed my PhD. Note this is not the finished version. The spell checking hasn't been done, the referencing is all over the shop and I'm sure my supervisors will tell me to refer to additonal material (despite the fact it's overlength already), but it's a complete document.

Here's to a future political and economic system which operates on a highly decentralized confederate network of autonomous actors bound by trust relationships and freely distributable and open source knowledge.

Just like something we already know and love....

I do have other news - in fact, it's been an extraordinary past several days, but champagne beckons....