Future Tense

Future Tense

Sovereignty as a Service

Nations don't get conquered anymore. They get deprecated.

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A Z Mackay
Oct 01, 2025
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Vladimir Putin says whoever leads in AI will rule the world. We repeat this as gospel, but we’ve misunderstood the prophecy. The revealing part isn’t “rule the world,” as if intelligence is territory waiting to be conquered, like Poland but with better venture capital. The revealing part is the assumption that nations will still be doing the ruling.

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