I'm glad we got on the record that (a) the virus was a serious problem and (b) that other nations have partially solved that problem.
But the US government is unlikely to follow suit. So it's all about the decentralized response, the Snow Crash Strategy from here on out.
But the US government is unlikely to follow suit. So it's all about the decentralized response, the Snow Crash Strategy from here on out.
The Snow Crash Strategy is individuals, companies, and communities improvising solutions where the state has failed.
It's Bezos putting $4B into COVID-19 supply chains, Gates funding vaccines, accelerated biomedicine, and digital everything by necessity.
It's Bezos putting $4B into COVID-19 supply chains, Gates funding vaccines, accelerated biomedicine, and digital everything by necessity.
I don't want to romanticize the Snow Crash Strategy.
We're all going to see how bad it is relative to the alternative of a competent state. It won't be pleasant to live in a red zone. But Snow Crash is better than nothing.
We're all going to see how bad it is relative to the alternative of a competent state. It won't be pleasant to live in a red zone. But Snow Crash is better than nothing.
I noted in March that the only thing working in America was the decentralized response.
The Snow Crash Strategy is the next iteration. As Western states fail to control the virus, individuals & competent organizations like Amazon have to fill the void.
archive.is/wip/TUZjf
The Snow Crash Strategy is the next iteration. As Western states fail to control the virus, individuals & competent organizations like Amazon have to fill the void.
archive.is/wip/TUZjf
