“One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas” V.Hugo
“As I watched those livestreams…The Trinidad project was my first taste of this new wave of digital colonialism” p.55
The idea of replicating society in silico.
” Harvesting social media data to profile users with an algorithm was just the beginning. Once their behavioural attributes were inferred, simultations could be run to map out how they would communicate and interact with one another at scale.” p.81
“By taking a leap at quantifying many of the intrinsic aspects of human behaviour and cultural interaction, Mercer eventually realised that he could have at his disposal the Uber of information warfare. And, like Uber ,which decimated the hundred-year-old taxi industry with a single app, his venture was about to do the same with democracy.” p82