“How should markets, businesses, groups, and individuals be regulated or limited differently in the face of diminishing state power and the increasing intelligence and networking of the material world?” Due to the nature of a capitalistic economy, the market should regulate itself. For example, if a company is doing unethical things, not providing good services, or simply doing bad business, consumers will move on to another company that can provide what the other company could not. As for the increasing intelligence and networking of the material world, you cannot narrow it down to one solution due to its complexity. However, you can break it down into parts. For example, increasing intelligence, this can relate many things, though my initial thought is big tech companies. Many of these companies like Facebook and Google sell user data to advertisement agencies. To regulate this is to emphasize privacy. Though due to the diminishing of state power, it us up to the consumer to provide regulation. That means that users should be using anti tracking technology to avoid a breach in their privacy. Examples of this sort of technology is, Chrome’s incognito mode, Firefox’s anti tracking browser options, The Tor browser, disabling cookies, and finally, using a VPN. These methods and technologies should provide the necessary means to ensure the privacy of the consumer. All that remains is educating the consumer on the existence of these technologies. Networking of the material world is an ambiguous statement and it leaves it up to interpretation. My interpretation is that we all are victim to the heavy reliance of technology. This will not change; it will only get worse. However, there is a partial solution to this. It stems directly to individual households and families. Parents should be raising their kids without a dependency on technology. This won’t solve the over arching problem, but it will limit it so that it doesn’t progress any further.