A risky political alignment
Has Big Tech made a major mistake by blindly aligning itself with Donald Trump and by associating itself, in a way, with the increasingly controversial figure of Elon Musk?
Everyone still remembers the Obama era, when Big Tech was celebrated as proof of American power and the armed wing of soft power.
Today, this strange alliance leaves an ambiguous feeling: what does it really hope to get from Trump?
Musk, architect of the battle of Deep State 1.0 against Deep State 2.0
Musk always plays the same strategy: unpredictability. A weapon that lets him avoid being attacked, whether on the markets or over his industrial strategies.
But what most analysts fail to see (at least the ones who appear on television) is that we are witnessing a battle between Deep State 1.0 and Deep State 2.0.
- Deep State 1.0 is the bureaucratic state, the traditional networks of power, the intelligence agencies and the historic military-industrial complex.
- Deep State 2.0 is the new tech players tied to Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen, who are looking to sell their own competing projects to the Pentagon and to redraw the lines of power.
Plenty of companies are lining up at the gate to join Deep State 2.0, offering technological solutions capable of prevailing over the traditional players. Their way in: the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).
Who are the contenders of Deep State 2.0?
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