TJ Walker argues that nuclear weapons once required massive infrastructure and expertise, creating natural limits on who could use them. Today, the most destructive capabilities come from code and internet access, eliminating those barriers and leaving governments terrified of theft or misuse by individuals and non-state actors.
for decades, the most dangerous technologies like nuclear weapons required enormous infrastructure, money, materials. Uh, you had to have enriched uranium, not something you can just conjure up or get from Amazon. You needed material, scientists, time. That created kind of a natural barrier. Not everyone could do it. Now imagine if that barrier just disappears. Imagine if the most powerful disruptive capabilities in the world don't require a government, don't require billions of dollars, don't require years of development. Just intelligence, just code, just access. That's the shift, and that's why governments are nervous, because this is not just about who has the biggest military. It's about who has the smartest systems, or worse, who steals them or leaks them or misuses them. Ultimize.
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