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"Overall the US-China tech war is likely to escalate" Because the US is going to make even better technology, right? With the same open standards that allowed its technology sector to grow in the first place?
No? How about we escalate by writing blank checks to scammers and passing more sanctions to further isolate ourselves.
Software is trying to virtualize a left-government. But without addressing the underlying problems of ownership in the real world, every virtualization is ultimately a zero-sum game.
New communication doesn't really address the contradictions in society that make electronic utopia a funny prank. Contradictions around status, identity, wealth, ideology make a bolted on electronic world a sewer of exploits.
We're already in the coined metaverse. It's pretty boring.
This is queen Victoria’s dream finally realized. We have come full circle.
I feel it too, the optimism has hit an organizational wall. I remember being worried about AOL’s take over of the internet and relieved when AOL went belly-up. I have the same worry about FANG and keep my fingers crossed that decentralization will replace them and they will go bankrupt from over-leveraging.
Employee ownership in companies has to get better. Direction has become so opaque, hidden, and now quite frankly tasteless and borderline tacky.
Change the problem, keep yourself.