No empire is safe from technological disruption (#Bitcoin)

We have 5,000 years of written records showing that people usually fail to recognize the strategic importance of new technologies.

Not the exception.

Time and time again,

Empires rise and fall because they keep allowing themselves to be surprised by the emergence of game-changing technologies.

Even more absurdly,

The people in charge of these empires keep acting like they have an option to refuse or ignore new technologies after they emerge,

1. As if the cat can be put back in the box.

2. As if they live in an isolated bubble completely separated from the rest of the world.

3. As if their empire is the only empire which gets to decide how they’re going to use this technology.

Why do rulers keep allowing their empires to be disrupted by new technologies?

Why do empires keep forfeiting important technological leads over to their adversaries?

There are several explanations.

1. This thought experiment highlights a national strategic security dilemma that US faces right now.

2. If a new technology aka #Bitcoin does have vital national strategic security implication.

3. This would imply that barriers slowing society down from reaching consensus about the strategic importance of that technology would represent a national strategic security hazard.

The point is that no empire is safe from technological disruption, you must prepare individually.

USA🇺🇸 should sit down and study #Bitcoin as a matter of national security...