Digitisation ... food for thought...20 Jun 2023 17:14
But it’s the emerging “digital order,” he says, that will become the world’s next superpower.
And governments do not run the digital order, they are run by technology companies. Big Tech’s power over the algorithms in Web2 determining what information we transmit and receive is “staggering.”
“What are they going to do with that power? It depends on who they want to be when they grow up,” he remarked.
Technology companies may align with their respective governments and allegiances, leading to a new bipolar digital world. Alternatively, governments could see their power over the tech world diminish, and “we will have a new globalization, a digital global order.”
“We will have a techno-polar order. And that will determine whether we have a world of limitless opportunity, or a world without freedom,” he added.
(Ian Bremmer - political scientist and author )