"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.
No? How about we escalate by writing blank checks to scammers and passing more sanctions to further isolate ourselves.