If you have computer networks running the world, whoever runs the networks runs the world. It's like a much more powerful thing than money. And this was a danger that was well articulated in advance by a variety of people. I tried to say what i could about it at the time, as did a few others. But there's a weird, kind of neutred quality to the new kind of power that makes it a little less horrible than it might be. If you want to look at the comparison, compare what companies like meta and alphabet can do to what the chinese are doingmatter the russians, or the iranians, uce all kinds of other people. There
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