Technology Sovereignty

What changes when computation, data, and intelligence become matters of national power?

An argument about computation, data, intelligence, and the changing relationship between technology and national power.

active · 2025–2026 · updated 2026-08-11

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Technology is no longer only an instrument of economic competition. As computation and intelligence become infrastructure, the question of who controls them begins to resemble older questions about territory, energy, and strategic autonomy.

This Thread follows the movement from globalisation toward a more contested technological order.

The argument

  1. Essay:

    Technology, Sovereignty, and the New Globalization

    The next globalization will not be borderless. It will be routed through power, policy, and the tech stacks nations can actually control.

  2. Marginalia:

    Markets are pricing AI on future potential

    Markets are pricing AI on a future shaped by foundational model capability and rapid workflow innovation. As leaderboards continue to shift, the case for broad AI pessimism remains premature.

  3. Marginalia:

    The tank is already in the capital

    AI does not persuade; it concludes, removing the interval in which doubt might have lived. What remains is fluency mistaken for truth, and consensus reduced to the absence of difference.