If cities and regional confederacies, held together mostly by consensus and cooperation existed thousands of years ago, who's to stop us creating them again today with technologies that allow us to overcome the friction of distance and numbers?

如果几千年前存在主要通过共识与合作维系在一起的城市和地区联盟，那么今天谁能阻止我们利用能够克服距离和人数摩擦的技术再次创建它们？