Nation State
topic on 5 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
Cheeky Pint 
American Optimist 
My First Million 
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All-In
7 statements about Nation State, every show
Mandia: Nation-states will always beat private companies in cyberattacks
“When a nation state targets a company, guess who wins? The nation does, not the company... You cannot expect great blue chip companies that constantly every day pitch a perfect game on defense against nations that are targeting them. It's just an unfair fight.”
Songhurst: The centralized nation-state is downstream from centralized media
“The extreme version of this for good or ill is that the centralized state is an outcome of centralized media. The nation state is downstream from the newspaper.”
Carlson: Conflating a nation-state with an ethnic group is unsustainable
“Conflating a nation state with an ethnic group is not a long-term strategy. It's not wise, because you are tied to the temporal politics, the politics of the moment.”
García Martínez: The internet is breaking down the nation state
“I think the nation state is kind of cracking up in a way just to get do more for a second. And I think the internet's definitely behind part of it because you don't have the sense of collective consensus that the media and TV, for example, Used to create durin…”
Balaji: Network states can scale faster than traditional nation-states
“A nation state can no longer expand, right? Because the boundaries there are fixed. The network state can expand at the speed of a TikTok or a Facebook, right? It can grab all these people globally. It's constantly competing for people. And so it can get great…”
Maples: Decentralized cloud societies will eventually function like future nation-states
“What I think happens at the limit is that all of these different cloud cultures are like their own societies.
And so right now the main, main organizing principle of society is the nation state, which is also an economies of scale centric model.
Right.
But if …”
Hindawi: Nation-state attackers will always succeed against commercial enterprises
“I mean, I think serious people in security have realized a long time ago that Given infinite time and infinite money, a nation state will come at you and will succeed. The reality of the situation is very few companies, very few, are equipped to actually deal …”