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> Here lies humanity, they tried to do the same things 15 different ways and squandered their resources doing so. Polities that don't retain control over their
by cabalamat 8y ago
> Here lies humanity, they tried to do the same things 15 different ways and squandered their resources doing so.
Polities that don't retain control over their computing infrastructure will in the future have effectively ceded independence to others.
Because controlling the full stack from silicon to cloud services is expensive (fabs can cost c. $20 billion), this has geo-political implications: namely that in the future there will only be a small number of loci of independent power. The USA will be one, China another. Does Europe want to make itself a third, or will it be content to be subservient to others?
- Mirioron 8y agoThe EU won't be content with it, but they still won't do anything about it.
- ionised 8y agoWhy not? Safe Harbour was shot down after the Schrems case. Google and Facebook are being taken to task currently. The huge fines for GDPR violations will come if the companies cited as in breach of the regulations fail to do what the EU asks. The EU is doing a lot. Just because it can't act with immediacy it doesn't mean nothing is happening.