The situations that we are encountering in our ever-shrinking world are becoming increasingly complex, to be sure.
And the internet's most recent democratization at the hands of Elon Musk does present us with interesting and perplexing circumstances.
Consider also that Nvidia is the critical company making the chips that the whole modern and advancing technological world relies on. Jensen Huang, the CEO, is the single person who manages the organization that, while not specifically identical to the situation with Musk and Starlink, has tremendous leverage over the modern world. Arguably, the economics of the technical world would grind to a halt if for some reason - accidental or intentional - those chips were suddenly taken out of circulation.
So what, then, do we do?
Technological quantum leaps (which I would argue neither of these entities truly represent) and to a lesser extent advancements (probably a better descriptor) that originate from individuals and at small privately held companies throughout history have always created an asymmetric advantage for the nation-state affiliated with the development - if any should exist - and create a tremendous dependency upon said entity responsible for the advancement.
Ted, tell us, what do we do!??!? :)
I love your writing. Thank you for doing this. You are splendid.
The situations that we are encountering in our ever-shrinking world are becoming increasingly complex, to be sure.
And the internet's most recent democratization at the hands of Elon Musk does present us with interesting and perplexing circumstances.
Consider also that Nvidia is the critical company making the chips that the whole modern and advancing technological world relies on. Jensen Huang, the CEO, is the single person who manages the organization that, while not specifically identical to the situation with Musk and Starlink, has tremendous leverage over the modern world. Arguably, the economics of the technical world would grind to a halt if for some reason - accidental or intentional - those chips were suddenly taken out of circulation.
So what, then, do we do?
Technological quantum leaps (which I would argue neither of these entities truly represent) and to a lesser extent advancements (probably a better descriptor) that originate from individuals and at small privately held companies throughout history have always created an asymmetric advantage for the nation-state affiliated with the development - if any should exist - and create a tremendous dependency upon said entity responsible for the advancement.
Ted, tell us, what do we do!??!? :)
I love your writing. Thank you for doing this. You are splendid.
Hahaha thank you sir, and your comment is splendid too!
Regrettably I don't know what we do either!!! Burn it all down and start over?!?!?
Not necessarily endorsing that, just, no bad ideas in a brainstorm, ya know?