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