Global fragmentation is underway and it is not what you think [see photo]. This is an innovation that is being made possible by new applications of online networks. Since the 1990s online links have been used to aggregate data and thus to expand networks of status, wealth, and power that led to global integration. But the Covid-19 lockdowns from China to EU to America and on to Australia exposed the problems with the authoritarian design of these new networks. In response to the unequal outcomes that came as part and parcel of this global system lockdown; breakaway networks began to arise as "misformation" [data, narratives, information, etc not sanctioned by the current global clique] in content that goes viral through new online links such as podcasts.
What is different now is the fact there is not just one global narrative on the effectiveness of renewable energy source, that the Ukraine [NATO coalition] is losing the war against Russian; the Washington DC plan for regime change in Moscow is a bust, and so on and so on. With these new sources of information comes new pathways to global fragmentation. Global fragmentation will soon become a local movement as individuals, families, and regional groups find ways to deal with inflation/deflation [based on government/commercial/private debt]. Migrant movements from Ukraine into the EU, from Mexico to USA, from China to the world, etc are a problem that can not and will not be solved by the old global power elites. Indeed the global power elites as seen at the peak of EU, WEF, UN, etc are being exposed as blatantly incompetent [not brilliant as they would have us believe].
Open AI will help local communities to take back control of their own affairs as human-based processes are replaced. More efficient use of all our human [and other] resources will evolve as the mandated inefficiencies of the global system are eliminated or made irrelevant. New robust information system that supports local autonomy and communities that are able to become more and more self-sufficient over the next 10 to 20 years. Clearly there is much hard work ahead of us all but at least we now have some of the tools we will need to solve so many of the big public/private issues around the globe.
Richard.
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