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The New Geography of Computing

For most of the internet era, computing felt almost locationless. You could build a company in Lagos, host its application in Virginia, serve customers in London and have engineers working from Nairobi. The software did not care about borders.

AI Is Not Just a Software Revolution

AI began as a software story. Algorithms. Neural networks.

The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence

AI is often described as the next technology revolution. But it is also becoming a geopolitical one. Because advanced AI depends on things that governments already care deeply about:

The Race to Control the AI Infrastructure Layer

The public sees AI through applications. Chatbots. Image generators.

Why Africa Could Produce a Different Kind of Startup

Africa is often described as a collection of problems waiting to be solved. That framing is incomplete. Africa is also a collection of markets being built in real time.

Why Data Centers May Matter More Than AI Startups

Every AI startup needs somewhere to run. That creates an interesting inversion. The startup may receive the attention.

Why Quantum Computing Is So Difficult

Quantum computing is often described as if someone simply discovered a faster kind of computer. That's not really what happened. A quantum computer isn't a normal computer with better processors.

THE CHIP WAR ISN'T REALLY ABOUT CHIPS

Open ChatGPT. Generate an image. Translate a sentence. Ask an AI to write code. Create a video. None of it looks particularly geopolitical. It feels like so