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WELCOME TO TECHNO-REALITY: The New Global Security Paradigm By Berit Anderson Why Read: The gulf between the tech world and global politics has been steadily narrowing, and we're standing on the edge of a political precipice that's about to erase it completely. Learn how your company will need to embrace the new security paradigm. ______ Going back and forth between the worlds of politics and business is enough to give a person whiplash. It's a Wednesday, and I've just returned from Fortune Brainstorm Health in Dana Point, California - a tony gathering of leaders across the medical innovation space. In other words, the people both building and funding the future of healthcare. The conversations there were heady, important, far-reaching. For example:
But none of these conversations - not even a panel about the catastrophic medical situation in Gaza - touched on "politics." In fact, the moderator of the Gaza panel explicitly stated that theirs would not be a political conversation. (Much to the apparent chagrin of one panelist, just returned from medical aid work in Gaza, who was describing to the audience the extreme violence and death she had just witnessed.) These experiences were juxtaposed in my mind with the commercial cyberpunk ethos of RSA I'd walked through a few weeks earlier, which had a definite national-security bent, but which one attendee blithely referred to as "Vendor Con." And the overstuffed Bloomberg Tech conference, which trotted out a who's who of leaders from social apps and AI but allowed no audience questions, further buffeting its speakers from public criticism. Take, for example, Meta, which controls a huge portion of the information ingested in the US and is, as a matter of policy, suppressing any real news across all its platforms. COO Chris Cox was not asked about this onstage.
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