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Polis is a prominent example of what leading ⿻ technologists Aviv Ovadya and Luke Thorburn call "collective response systems" and "bridging systems" and others call "wikisurveys".

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

In a pair of recent essays, political scientist Ian Bremmer contends that Big Tech companies will reshape the global order, while FP columnist Stephen Walt’s friendly rejoinder is that states will remain predominant. We take a third view: Not only has technology already changed the global order, but it is also changing the nature of both companies... See more

Parag Khanna, Balaji S. Srinivasan • Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Web3 Are Already Reshaping the World

🚨MARC ANDREESSEN: "We're at the very beginning of drone warfare. The drones are going to get very sophisticated and they're going to be manufactured in much higher quantities. Every time you see a drone today, just think of that being 1000 drones. What could a naval destroyer even do against 1000 incoming drones armed with bombs big enough to blow... See more

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Stark Draper, who runs the big missile lab at M.I.T. and who invented inertial guidance and so on, says publicly, and he’s told me privately, that he doesn’t see any purpose in security classifications—because he says the only effect is to prevent American scientists from communicating adequately.

Peter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

🚨 $PLTR CTO @ssankar on Fox Business today talking about his new treatise: The Defense Reformation 🔮🇺🇸 "We need to compete like David against Goliath. We need to give American workers superpowers. We're doing this with Panasonic Energy in the $TSLA gigafactory helping American workers who were previously working in... See more

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An influential minority in the tech industry not only believes that new technologies pose a threat to our ordered world of nation-states; this group actively welcomes its demise. These critics believe that the state is mostly in the way. They argue it’s best jettisoned, already so troubled it is beyond rescue. I fundamentally disagree; such an

Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Hackers are unruly. That is the essence of hacking. And it is also the essence of American-ness.

Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

In 2015, Ash Carter, President Obama’s Secretary of Defense, set out to bring the two communities together. Carter, who had a doctorate in theoretical physics, dispatched a team of officers to the Bay Area to set up an outpost—officially called the Defense Innovation Unit, but known at the Pentagon as Unit X. Its job was to find fledgling... See more

Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War?

Network is the Next Leviathan When we say that the Network is the next Leviathan, which we can abbreviate as “Network > State” it is useful to give specifics.