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In this episode Michael Fiorentino speaks with Trees De Bruyne about our application for Open AI's "Democratic Inputs to AI" grant, the pros and cons of the EU nanny state, controversies around the 15 minute city, how digital twins can be applied to urbanism and research studies, the Bauhaus and Dada art movements, the Media Motor Europe accelerator program, how tech policies can encourage diversity or promote discrimination, digital burnout and people who are embracing digital sovereignty to basically opt out of modern society.
Countries around the world are developing local tech sectors and seizing virtual sovereignty.
So should we expect to soon have to adapt to a bifurcated internet? It’s possible. U.S. firms are still immensely successful. Moreover, the vision of a free, democratic American internet doing battle against an authoritarian Chinese one is as popular with Democratic policymakers as it is with Republicans.
And yet it’s more likely we’ll see multiple internets, each characterized by increasing local control over the ecosystem of investment and development. Like Brazil’s, India’s telecommunications infrastructure was also built up by Huawei and ZTE, and India welcomed substantial investment from Chinese tech companies. That money and expertise helped India produce its own national tech ecosystem. When tensions flared on the Sino-Indian border, Indian leaders told Chinese tech companies they had to go. India is now bent on constructing a tech sector with as local a basis as possible — and American tech companies are willing to invest heavily in it, sometimes alongside Chinese partners able to navigate the political winds.
Europe is similarly trying to find a path toward maximum autonomy from the U.S.-China duopoly. It is a feat that Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea have artfully managed for many years, though so quietly that it often goes unnoticed outside Asia.
Ultimately, if you put Brazil, India, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea together, you have a significant portion of the world’s wealth and population, belonging to countries not at all interested in the economic subordination of their tech sectors to either the U.S. or China. These are all innovative economies in their own right. They want to remain so, as do their counterparts in Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Australia, and Nigeria. There is no economic or security reason why the U.S. should insist on the use of American companies abroad, nor can China enforce the use of Chinese technology in any but a handful of countries near its borders.
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