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balajis
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HARD CLOUDS We didn’t have hard state borders in the premodern era. Maps weren’t advanced, passports weren’t issued, travel was infrequent. Dividing the land up into disjoint nation states was very much a new idea. I think we are currently in a similarly fuzzy era of network borders. Maps of the cloud aren’t advanced, digital passports are inchoate, transit between networks is still largely frictionless. But China and crypto are changing that. That is: the Great Firewall and the Bitcoin Blockchain take network borders *seriously.* In totally different ways, Xi and Satoshi treat Internet defense as central to their community’s continued existence. So they built hard clouds. Meanwhile, the legacy nation state was built *before* the cloud. And ideas developed back then don’t necessarily work today in the same way. Eg: if hostile foreigners have free speech on your trusted network, if they can send any bits they want, they may script your drones or take your coins. So cloud borders will harden.
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Les Greys
@les
There is always a catalyst of events that cause these things to turn from infrequent or rare, to frequent or common, what do you see gets us there? The harden clouds that is. Yeah, we will chug along, but is it a rise in new power which you’ve been covering, is it war, is it dark and gloomy, or just we keep chugging along towards it inevitable state of harden clouds?
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