The Global Politics

There is something quietly unsettling about the times we inhabit not because of a singular crisis, but because distance has dissolved into immediacy. A transport owner recalculates costs as fuel fluctuates, payments stall, and margins narrow; he is not tracking geopolitics, yet geopolitics is embedded in every figure before him. This is the defining condition of the present: the global no longer remains abstract but manifests directly in the everyday. Where world affairs once

Aviation took almost a generation to reach 100 million users. Netflix took roughly a decade to reach the same scale on streaming. ChatGPT did it in two months. No technology in modern history has been adopted as quickly, and almost every public conversation about generative AI has unfolded after the technology was already in our hands. That speed is the problem. Not the technology. The speed. In 1950, Alan Turing replaced "Can machines think?" with an operational test about c