Power comes out the barrel of a gun. Forms of government have always followed military technology. In the modern era, this means highly technical, complex suppl

Power comes out the barrel of a gun. Forms of government have always followed military technology. In the modern era, this means highly technical, complex supply chains, and the technical know-how to manage it all. As war is increasingly fought by AI powered drone systems (an inevitably, IMO) the firms with key value-add in this process will increasingly gain sovereignty. Power will be highly fractured in this environment between different “equity lords”. To justify their legitimacy, they’ll need to keep economic growth up (also an inevitability with the rise of AI) and probably also issue some sort of UBI. Basically expect the future of America to be a sort of modern Holy Roman Empire, with Microsoft in the role of the Hapsburgs.