As I explained years ago, as warfare increasingly evolves into stalemated, non-lethal contests between swarms of unmanned machines (i.e., drones), people will inevitably realize you can simply park these machines in a warehouse and have them compete against another nation’s machines electronically over the internet—rather than kinetically through 3D space. This would be a non-lethal, abstracted form of warfare, but it would still be a physical competition between machines in pursuit of a political end. And it turns out this “softwar” protocol already exists—and nations have already begun to use it. It’s hiding in plain sight, masquerading as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system called Bitcoin. The first nations to understand this will become digital superpowers... 😉