Keynote: World Politics, World Building
summary
Argues geopolitics shifts from seizing land to building virtual worlds that others must inhabit, with superpowers acting as system administrators who can change rules midgame. Points to concrete tools — 5G/6G networks, AI plus energy (solar vs nuclear), crypto/Ethereum platforms — and cites the freezing of Russian central bank reserves as an example of god mode control: entries in databases frozen or deleted. Claims everything can be virtualized, and modular/composable architectures offer one path to shared world-building.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Virtual geopolitics
- 1:05Geopolitics as world-building
- 3:35Nature and power
- 5:01Virtual territory
- 6:26Ontological shift in rivalry
- 8:55Admins changing environments
- 10:00Redesigning global networks
- 11:46AI and energy complex
- 13:52Power through rules
- 15:15Technology as environment
- 16:43Programming geopolitics
- 17:26Superpowers in meta-game
- 18:28Changing rules with God mode
- 20:34Q&A: First-mover advantage
- 21:38Q&A: Beyond nation states
- 22:22Q&A: Limits of virtualization
- 23:05Q&A: USA vs China
- 23:45Q&A: Decentralized superpower?
- 24:28Q&A: The referee role
- 25:11Q&A: Independent communities
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