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Below is the written version of a talk I gave at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs on December 10th, 2024. This talk was the culmination of my semester teaching a class called Planetary-Scale Data Institutions at the Jackson School. While my course examined the details of data production and governance, this talk gave me an opportunity to zoom out and examine the overarching impact of the Internet on global governance. While the Jackson School shared a write up of it (and it was described as “informative, terrifying, and entertaining in equal measure”), the session was not recorded and the talk has never been published until now. I’m sharing it today because the last six months have reinforced the core thesis of the talk which is that the Internet has enabled the creation of a new kind of power that nation states have failed to grasp. This is not a novel idea and professional scholars have written about this extensively, but I’ve found my conceptualization of the noösphere as a

Below is the written version of a talk I gave at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs on December 10th, 2024. This talk was the culmination of my semester teaching a class called Planetary-Scale Data Institutions at the Jackson School. While my course examined the details of data production and governance, this talk gave me an opportunity to zoom out and examine the overarching impact of the Internet on global governance. While the Jackson School shared a write up of it (and it was described as "informative, terrifying, and entertaining in equal measure" ), the session was not recorded an

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