If one asks, what are the possible roads to a
world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom
of information in anecologically organized
world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control
of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance
of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform
of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit
of national interest; (c) Extension
of the system through the
creation of a federal
world government; (d) Fragmentation
of the system through increases in the power
of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (
e) Abolition
of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»
In the United States, Barnes & Noble, the
world's largest bookstore chain, took a much bigger gamble by investing heavily in the
creation of its own
e - reader / tablet.