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National Security: The Evolving Security Threat and Opportunity
National Security Observations National Security was initially conceived as a protection against military attack. It has evolved in significance over the years to include economic independence, border security, crime, energy, manufacturing, cyber, logistics, capital markets, and our industrial supply chain to name a few. Events like 9/11 kicked off an era of cloud innovation and investment unlike...
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The Republic of Big Tech Pt. 2
Conversion Insights In our last installment, we addressed the monumental rise of the new economy, Big Technology firms that are gradually swallowing the cities they inhabit and now, the nation-states they occupy – Amazon to Amazonia. But what is left unclear is how regulators will address this change. After all, the US government et al....
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The Republic of Big Tech
Conversion Insights In the last 500 years, there are few choices for the most important legal treatise beyond the Declaration of Independence – the only arguable contender might be the Peace of Westphalia born in 1648, which created the foundation of the modern nation-state. After a period of significant political volatility, the eighty years war,...