The world we live in today is the result of hundreds of years of human exploration, conflicts, wars and invasions which has left the world divided into almost 200 countries that are in the world today.

And though it might seem that we have settled into a more stable kind of a civilisation, we always keep on hearing about unrest between some countries or the other.

It’s like, the world leaders just don’t want to give it a rest and peace has become this magical, utopian, wonderland that we are showed dreams of, just to keep us hopeful for a future that we have a very slim chance of reaching.

In such times, you just can’t help but wonder if the world will ever become one. Technology is already shrinking our world and bringing us together, but can it help us humans establish a civilisation that is not divided on any basis and we all live as one species?

A United World

A true united world is one where countries do not exist and people have forgotten their differences and have taken the identity of a human being rather than one defined by one’s country.

Therefore there would be a common currency, law, economics, educational system, for the entire world, leading to a simplification of the core areas of human civilisation which everyone could benefit off of.

Such a world could theoretically be driven by growth rather than conflict as the focus would be on the advancement of the human race itself and not of the people of a particular country.

But the talk of a world government inspires fear rather than hope in the minds of people and that is because of the rising mistrust of the public towards their governments. So, it is only natural to think that a one world government, which would have absolute control over the whole world, would be feared rather than wished for.

Does Technology Have An Answer?

As I stated before, technology is already making the world smaller and bringing us closer every day, but it might help us go one step further and create a world government that isn’t a dictatorship.

If a decentralised currency like Bitcoin was adopted as a global currency, it would solve many of the problems that the world has today. Any world government that doesn’t have the power to print money, won’t have much power and hence, no dictator type control.

Also, the entire governance of the whole world could be decentralised which would minimise the role of a world government even more. This article does a brilliant job at explaining how that might be achievable.

Another frequently suggested idea is that AI could one day get so smart that it could run the whole world. In such a scenario, people wouldn’t form a government but computer code would. Of course, we are all aware of the dangers this scenario poses as has been showed to us in many movies.

Will Countries Ever Cease To Exist?

I think a few hundred years down the road or even a few thousand, the people of the world will indeed unite and thus this concept of countries will cease to exist.

With the pace of technology that exists, it is only a matter of time that we solve a lot of the world’s problems and pave the way for a unification that the people of the world will actually want.

Also, when we start venturing out deeper into space and start colonising different planets, a single identity would be so crucial to ensure unity so that we humans could keep pushing our boundaries, together.

Of course this may never happen too in which case, we will just have to put aside our differences and ‘act’ as one while maintaining our individual unique identities and diversities.