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The core thesis of Silicon Empires is that the competition in artificial intelligence is not merely a technological or corporate race, but a geopolitical struggle between state-platform complexes. Srnicek argues that the future of AI—and by extension, the future of the global economy and political power—is being shaped by the aggressive, state-backed industrial policies of the United States and China, which have created dominant, self-reinforcing ‘empires’ of technology. Europe, in his view, is lagging dangerously behind due to a lack of strategic cohesion like that of its counterparts. An analysis of Srnicek’s Silicon Empires must be grounded in the foundational ideas he developed with Alex Williams in their seminal works, Platform Capitalism (2017) and Inventing the Future (2015). Silicon Empires is, in many ways, a direct geopolitical extension of the arguments laid out in these earlier texts. From Platform Capitalism to Silicon Empires Platform Capitalism core argument: Srnicek’s e

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