Posted on 09/16/2020 6:38:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Until recently the biggest source of global conflict had to do with energy, oil, and gas resources, but today data is more valuable, and much more disruptive. The bits and bytes of the information revolution are, it turns out, are disruptive economically and geopolitically. In The Economist’s words highlighting this tectonic shift: “Data are to this century what oil was to the last one: a driver of growth and change.” That change is coming swiftly, and -- in the coming years -- violently.
Governments are slow to recognize this fact. It is nonetheless jumping out and slapping them in the face. Data can be captured, mined, processed and sold -- it can also be routed, rerouted, ’listened’ to and stolen. Nord Stream 2 and the conflict between Russia and Europe gets all the attention, but there is another -- digital -- conflict between Russia and one of its smallest neighbors that is just as important and is getting nobody’s attention. The Regional Digital Hub connecting Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan and - through its Georgian properties -- on to Europe is a transformational project creating hope, and potentially stability, in a troubled region. Russia is doing everything it can to block the project. Why? Because it allows five former Soviet States to bypass Russia with their incredibly powerful bits and bytes of data, connecting directly to Europe.
The project connects Europe with Kazakhstan, through Georgia and Azerbaijan, with a spur through Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. In bypassing Russia, the project gives the entire region data autonomy, and the opportunity of developing its own data businesses.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
when I shut my flip phone off i’m off line.
And now, because of H1B visa abuse, the Indians are close to controlling most of Americans computer systems. In the last 2 years they have basically taken over all IT recruitment. And they don’t hire Americans. This is a very big stealth national security problem. Let alone the thousands of Americans who are losing their high tech jobs and careers.
Raymond Reddington, is that you? :)
Unlike oil, timber and farms, when the power goes out, tangible goods still exist. While obsessing over data is a the rage in the offices downtown, when oil, timber and farms stop cities cease to exist.
Why then the crazy attitude of city folk that country folk are to be exploited politically, and reality to be spurned for bits and bytes that ultimately do not exist?
Without flyover country there is no country.
Whenever you are given the opportunity to poison data, poison the data.
Fascinating thought, that one could embed their personal data with some sort of fatal poison to anything attempting to mine it.
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