The Twilight of Sovereignty

The joining of computers with world television, satellites, mobile phones and fax is, in Walter B. Wriston's account, a new geopolitical revolution. He uses instant global information to explain migration, ethnic rivalry, Latin America's turn to democracy and the fall of the Soviet empire, and argues it leaves no hiding place for disasters like Chernobyl. It was published in 1992.

In an AMA, Marc Andreessen suggested it, along with Cryptonomicon, as a related read to The Sovereign Individual.