Your Views on a world Government

[Aiken]

As many of you, I'm an opponent of world government idea.
But on a second thought I came to idea that our judgements are way too banal: global state = very big USA/China/EU/whatever -> despotic methods = bad.
I thought about different things, though.

For example, my science work is dedicated to "automatization" of urban economics. Together with vast of other projects it might lead to humanless expert system of local administration guided via declaration of will of citizens (electronically). Such autonomous cells could be united into state-scale grid, and then (theoretically) into world-wide grid. So finally we will have global "government" which rule world economy in a most effective and rational way. All this is possible from scientifical point of view.
You'll ask, "What about politicians and such?" Well, they'll be obsolete. Several millions of controllers over the world will be enough to check and maintain such system.
Want success stories? Internet grew up the very similar way - local nodes united to local networks and then LANs formed global network.
You'll say, "I won't trust computers to manage my life!". Well we do it already. We trust computers to make cars, electronics, and other computers. We trust them to pilot airplanes and cars. We trust them to manage enterprise resources (ERM systems and most of middleware). They're not smart enough to make some complex decisions yet, but I think it's a matter of time. You don't really need true AI, just very good algorithms and very good mathematical models.

I agree that such future looks quite joyless, but I think it's possible. And probably in our lifetime.

About Russia as the leader of world integration:
As Russian I can say for sure, that our society is turning into typical police state (ala Pinochet's Chili), which has nothing common with communism or socialism. Of course our Soviet past has huge influence still, but it's a matter of methods, not ideas. Ex: local elections are limited (you can't elect Governor or city Major anymore); our parliament will be reduced to minimum, freedom of national referendum is limited (in fact, it should be approved (sic!) in Moscow!!). Combined with ruined economy and science, this negates any chances for Russia to be a leader of world integration.