Marshall McLuhan (Score 1)

McLuhan, a Canadian philosopher, wrote the book "The Medium is the Message." One of the threads In the book was similar to peter diamonds' comment that new technologies have the effect of negating political boundaries and in doing so reorganizing society into larger groups. (Largely by speeding up information transfer). I would agree with peter diamond. Marshall McLuhan gave some solid examples of the process at work throughout history. Good read if you are interested.