Are you your data? Twenty years ago this question would have been confusing. Today it makes sense. Now extrapolate that out to your company, nation, more. What a future we're facing!
Excellent question, David. The more valuable data becomes, the more restrictions are being placed on its use and storage. 141 nations now have data sovereignty laws. CA now has its own GDPR lite in CCPA. It's a fascinating evolution of we are seeing happen literally in front of our eyes. Data needs a passport now. It also needs sovereign infrastructure. Who have thought, humans not trusting each other?
And will AI inherit our mistrust? How will various sovereign ledger-and-node assets interact with each other? We've already seen "jibber-link" communications between LLMs...
What about during the transmission of data? Won't that be a vulnerable point of interception? Like robbing a business owner making a bank deposit at the end of the week?
US data is US data where ever it is. That's the key change here. Cayman data is Cayman's. UK is UK, etc. The data has become so valuable for transactions, taxation, regulatory insight and jurisdictional control that everything is moving to be come Sovereign. We're starting to struggle to find actual examples of trans national data. Science data? even Netflix is now Netflix USA, Netflix UK, Netflix Australia, etc.
Well, banks did once store real money - at least a portion of it - in gold and silver. That fact lead in part (individual rights over the State paramount) to America's wealth. Now we have worthless paper stored as worthless information. In the past, the former purchased life's necessities. Information is valuable only to the degree it has, in fact, purchasing power. I don't see the envisioned coming abundance being distributed uniformly...but only doled out to the extent it ensures political compliance and stifles revolt.
Are you your data? Twenty years ago this question would have been confusing. Today it makes sense. Now extrapolate that out to your company, nation, more. What a future we're facing!
What new contests, contentions, and, maybe, wars will these sovereign ledger-and-node assets generate?
Excellent question, David. The more valuable data becomes, the more restrictions are being placed on its use and storage. 141 nations now have data sovereignty laws. CA now has its own GDPR lite in CCPA. It's a fascinating evolution of we are seeing happen literally in front of our eyes. Data needs a passport now. It also needs sovereign infrastructure. Who have thought, humans not trusting each other?
And will AI inherit our mistrust? How will various sovereign ledger-and-node assets interact with each other? We've already seen "jibber-link" communications between LLMs...
That's the proverbial trillion dollar question for all of us, yes? Do you see mistrust as healthy? Safer? Questioning?
Asking for a Friend...
What about during the transmission of data? Won't that be a vulnerable point of interception? Like robbing a business owner making a bank deposit at the end of the week?
PS - this is my first substack!
Great read and comments! Really inspires us to think these critical issues through all the way.
Yep form the company in Argentina and push the compute into space.
AWG I read the other day A16Z is Andreessen Horowitz , A Z and 16 letters in the middle. haha that's clever. just curious what does O21T stand for ?
Makes $en$e.
How does this compare to offshore accounts in the Caymen Islands? Will they be immune to scrutiny by the USA IRS and such?
US data is US data where ever it is. That's the key change here. Cayman data is Cayman's. UK is UK, etc. The data has become so valuable for transactions, taxation, regulatory insight and jurisdictional control that everything is moving to be come Sovereign. We're starting to struggle to find actual examples of trans national data. Science data? even Netflix is now Netflix USA, Netflix UK, Netflix Australia, etc.
Well, banks did once store real money - at least a portion of it - in gold and silver. That fact lead in part (individual rights over the State paramount) to America's wealth. Now we have worthless paper stored as worthless information. In the past, the former purchased life's necessities. Information is valuable only to the degree it has, in fact, purchasing power. I don't see the envisioned coming abundance being distributed uniformly...but only doled out to the extent it ensures political compliance and stifles revolt.
"My God it's full of stars!" - Astronaut Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey
When are we going to get moving on an ai constitutional convention
Thank you Dr. AWG! I always love to read your stuff… very cool.