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The Technopolar Paradox: The Frightening Fusion of Tech Power and State Power
The frightening fusion of tech power and state power.
If American companies such as SpaceX, Microsoft, and Palantir hadn’t chosen to leap to Ukraine’s defense—enabling communication, repelling cyberattacks, analyzing intelligence, and powering drones—Russia could have knocked the country offline, decapitated its command structure, and seized the capital. In Washington, an effort to limit China’s technological development began with targeted export and investment controls on a narrow set of strategically sensitive advanced technologies—a “small yard, high fence” approach, as the Biden administration framed it. A subset of Silicon Valley visionaries such as Musk, Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen once saw technology not just as a business opportunity but as a revolutionary force—one capable of liberating society from the limits of government and ultimately rendering the state obsolete.
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