What is considered an issue of digital sovereignty on this side of the Atlantic is regarded as an antitrust case in the US. Tech giants are not just targeted in Europe, however. While the UK and US governments are battling against Huawei, Europe is focussing on Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon - With mixed results. Not just in Europe, but all over the world.
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The facts about digital sovereignty, jingoism and the once free marketĪ recent wave of digital sovereignty has overwhelmed us. As with all battlefields (Remember Stendahl’s Del Dongo’s crossing of the Waterloo battlefield in the Duchess of Parma), the situation is increasingly confusing, and the outcome utmost uncertain.
We are, on the contrary, witnessing a new order, or disorder rather, whereby everyone (superpowers, nations, peoples, pressure groups and globalised ultra-powerful businesses) is fighting against everyone else.Īs a result, digital and the Internet, in particular, have become the new economic warfare battlefield. In this context, there is no top-down organisation or State imposing anything precisely on anyone. Yet, whereas Orwell had imagined a top-down authoritarian society - modelled after the late Soviet Union - what we are witnessing now is global havoc at scale. One could have added, “fake news is true information.” War is peace, freedom is slavery This picture by SGAER from 6 years ago sums it up nicely. Five scenarios for the future of the Internet in these Orwellian times. One may rightfully wonder whether freedom has now become slavery. Once, the Internet was the perfect place for freedom: freedom of speech and information, free market for all in a globalised peaceful world, a field for almost limitless opportunities. World Wide Web: 5 scenarios for the future of the Internet and business These are mere endeavours, and our readers are more than welcome to comment and propose alternative scenarios. This piece is, I hope, a not too desperate attempt at making sense of the current economic and economic-warfare situation, as well as devising scenarios for the years ahead. The future of the World Wide Web and that of Net neutrality are crucial issues for the future, not only of the Internet and business themselves but humanity at large. Digital sovereignty, jingoism and the once free Internet are now the context in which we are evolving, both from a business and personal point of view (the two are linked).
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