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The Political Economy of Digital Infrastructure

October 1, 2026 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For decades, the political economy of global trade was defined by physical commodities—oil pipelines, shipping lanes, container ports, and heavy manufacturing supply chains. Digital networks, by contrast, were romanticized as weightless, borderless, and entirely market-driven utilities governed by private engineering consortia and frictionless market forces. Today, that illusion has vanished. The global political economy has…

Politics & Power

How Governments Adapt to a Networked Society

April 9, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For centuries, government administration was built around the architecture of the industrial nation-state: hierarchical ministries, paper-based bureaucracies, physical office buildings, and geographically bound jurisdictions. State power moved at the speed of mail deliveries, parliamentary sessions, and bureaucratic approvals. In the 21st-century networked society, that traditional administrative machinery faces an existential mismatch. Citizens, capital, information, and…

Technology & Politics

Understanding the Politics Behind Digital Transformation

March 23, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

In mainstream political discourse, digital transformation is almost exclusively aggressively marketed as a neutral, non-ideological imperative. Governments and corporations alike frame the digitization of society as a natural evolution toward “smart cities,” frictionless bureaucracy, paperless efficiency, and objective progress. Beneath this sanitized narrative, however, digital transformation is an intensely political process. It is not merely…

Social Networks

How Technology Is Changing the Relationship Between Citizens and Government

March 11, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For generations, the interface between citizens and the state was defined by physical bureaucracy, paper-based friction, and hierarchical distance. Interacting with government meant standing in physical queues, filling out rigid forms at municipal offices, waiting weeks for permits, and communicating through unidirectional channels where citizens played a passive role as administrative subjects. The rise of…