Accompanying text for Act I
A comparative account of the American, Chinese, and European approaches to governing the digital economy and shaping global technological rules.
A history of semiconductors and the global supply chains, public investments, and technological chokepoints that made them central to geopolitical competition.
An accessible introduction to artificial intelligence that explains what current systems can do, where they fail, and why intelligence remains difficult to define.
A broad history of the relationship between technological change, institutional development, and the distribution of economic and political power.
A forceful critique of how technology companies gained institutional influence, combined with a practical account of how liberal democracies can regain control.