For decades, we’ve been tethered to a piece of glass and silicon as if it were a physical limb. If you left your phone on the nightstand, you effectively ceased to exist in the digital ledger.
For twenty-four years in foreign capitals, I watched governments chase capabilities they could neither field nor sustain, confusing hardware on a parade deck with actual sovereign weight.
They want us to believe that a computer is just a tool, a sterile box of silicon and glass meant to sit quietly on a desk while we grind through the workday. But we know better.
You read the headlines and you see Washington puffing out its chest again. Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary, is calling this an “economic D-Day” against Iran’s shadow economy.
The current fever pitch surrounding AI agents feels like another Washington overreach: complex, overly engineered systems designed to solve problems that are either non-existent…