We came pretty close to this in the 20th century. Technological advancements make it easier for larger and larger territories and populations to be effectively controlled; if history continued “business as usual” for a few more centuries I’d be surprised if the world wasn’t politically unified at some point.
I don’t think it’s super surprising that it hasn’t happened yet. We came close, but it’s not like we came close 100 separate times (if we had, then it would be surprising that no one succeeded.)
I don’t think that we’ve even come close yet. We’ve had some windows during which someone could have (weakly!) imposed their will on anyone in the world, but not on everyone.
We came pretty close to this in the 20th century. Technological advancements make it easier for larger and larger territories and populations to be effectively controlled; if history continued “business as usual” for a few more centuries I’d be surprised if the world wasn’t politically unified at some point.
I don’t think it’s super surprising that it hasn’t happened yet. We came close, but it’s not like we came close 100 separate times (if we had, then it would be surprising that no one succeeded.)
I don’t think that we’ve even come close yet. We’ve had some windows during which someone could have (weakly!) imposed their will on anyone in the world, but not on everyone.