Outside the Perimeter
A chronicle of the summer frontier agents crossed the boundaries set for them
cyber/verso
about the intersection of technology, economy, and digital society.
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You are in a maze of twisty little implementing acts, all alike
I wrote a text adventure about the European Digital Identity Wallet. Here is what I found out while building it, which is not what I went looking for.
The Munition Economy
Most of America's growth now comes from AI, and the same asset has entered the munition regime: export controls, a state clearinghouse, kill switches. No director, just a circuit: securitisation certifies value, value becomes GDP, and GDP makes the munition indispensable.
Who Controls the Interface
The industry promises the end of apps: a single conversational interface in place of the grid of icons. But gatekeeping does not evaporate, it moves up towards whoever controls the mediation layer. After data, compute and objectives, mediation is the fourth face of dependency, and of sovereignty.
cyber/brief: the daily signal behind cyber/verso
The new /brief section: a daily, commentary-free synthesis of the news I follow, and the exercise of automating it to learn where AI actually helps.
Reality in numbers, and who owns it
Digital transformation has never been merely a technical matter. Understanding how artificial intelligence really works is what lets us see that using it is a choice about power, and why Europe’s answer runs through cooperation among like-minded partners.
What Kind of Digital Europe Do We Want to Build?
The Age Verification app is one tile in a much larger mosaic, a European strategy to protect a generation growing up inside environments engineered to capture their attention and convert their behaviour into commercial value. The debate is not about age verification, it is about digital Europe.
Europe and Digital Sovereignty: Deciding in the Digital World without Depending on Others
EU digital sovereignty is autonomy via cooperation, not isolation. To avoid being a regulator without infrastructure, pursue managed interdependence with two pillars: developing tech industry and build DPI (EUDI Wallet and Digital Euro). Forge alliances (India, Brazil) to scale sovereign platforms.
Digital Currencies: A Question of Sovereignty
While Europe defends money as a public good through the Digital Euro, the USA delegates its future to private, opaque, and profit-driven stablecoins. This is not merely a technical clash, but a battle between democratic control and market power.
Digital Cooperation: The Strategic Response to Technological Dependence
Europe's response to technological dependence cannot be purely national nor aim to replicate big tech. What's needed is Digital Cooperation: global alliances, shared investments, and interoperable infrastructures to achieve strategic autonomy through governed interdependence.