Insights

Essays and updates

Arguments from the book, taken one at a time and brought up to date. Each piece is tagged to the Part it belongs to.

Part I · <> · 7 min read

Compute, models, and data held under national control, and why the phrase turns up in budget documents before it turns up in strategy documents.

Part IV · <> · 9 min read

The same systems produce liberation or domination. The variable is ownership and accountability, not capability.

Part III · <> · 6 min read

When a firm issues your identity, moves your money, and carries your speech, the word for it stops being “vendor.”