Ideas

The Information Trade & coining "net states"

Wichowski, A. (Nov 4, 2017). "Net states rule the world. We need to recognize their power." WIRED

Wichowski, A. (2020). The Information Trade: How Big Tech Conquers Countries, Challenges Our Rights, and Transforms Our World. Harper Collins

Impact

Francis Fukayama (Feb 13 2018) "Overwriting History: Future Of Global Governance & Net States," World Governments Summit

Robert Muggah, World Economic Forum. (Nov 9, 2017). "Countries are so last-century. Enter the 'net state'"

Julia Franz & Katie Hiler (Nov 17 2017). "Confronting the new geopolitics of ‘net-states’," The World

Feng Cuishan (Dec 2 2017). "Virtual kingdoms like Facebook are "uncontrolled," a behemoth that plunges the world into crisis and is beyond anyone's control". HK01

Observer Research Foundation (Oct 20, 2018). "Nation-states to net-states: power in the hyper-connected age.”

Harshith Ravi (Nov 19, 2017). "The rise of 'net-states,' Medium

Ian Matthews (Nov 21 2017). "SOLVED: What is a net state and is Facebook the first?" URtech, Calgary

Ira Flatow (host) (Feb 14 2020). "How Big Tech Is taking on big government," Science Friday

Callum Harvey (2021). "Mapping the net state: towards a framework for cyber statecraft," Honors thesis, University of Wollogang, Australia.

Callum J. Harvey, Christopher L. Moore (Dec 2 2022). "The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace, Policy & Internet

Harvey, C. J., & Moore, C. L. (2023). "Cyber statecraft by net states: the case of Meta, 2016–2021." Journal of Cyber Policy, 8(1), 67–87.

Srirath Gohwong (2023). "Russian net states and their roles in Russia." 10th National and International Virtual Conference on Multidisciplinary Research

Kittisak Jermsittiparsert & Srirath Gohwong (2023). "Strategic governmental power marketing for stateless players and net states" IGI Global Scientific Publishing

Rojas, V. (2023). "The Rise of Net-States in the Cyberspace: Cyber Power Dynamics and the Disruption of International Security," Dissertation, MIT

Reviews

"This erudite analysis should be required reading"

- Publishers Weekly

"An excellent, provocative, and even visionary book on the role of tech in traditionally government spheres of activity"
- Mark Fowler, former Chair, Federal Communications Commission

"As an AI leader in the tech industry...I’ve read most major books related to big tech. Many are hyper-partisan. Most are insightful in some respects but have a major bias or are narrow and miss an important piece of the puzzle. Few dare to venture substantive solutions. The Information Trade improves on all of these. Wichowski presents a clear and unique viewpoint that integrates these seemingly inconsistent—but clearly correct—viewpoints into a coherent story that captures the problem with a nuance and constructively positive outlook I haven’t seen anywhere"
- Chad Mills, AI / ML engineer (formerly Facebook, Twitter, Grammarly)

"Eminently accessible, deeply researched exploration"
- Kirkus Reviews

"Authoritative yet accessible, friendly, and direct"
- Washington Independent Review of Books

"Timely, compelling, and expertly researched passport to the tech companies that rule today’s digital landscape"
- Blake Harris, author, Console Wars

"Wichowski offers an important framework for how new digital reality is shaping power structures, locally and globally"
- Denmark's (and world's first) Tech Ambassador Casper Klynge

"Wichowski is a wonderfully tireless investigator of the Internet’s Great Powers"

- Scott Malcomson, author, Splinternet

"One of the most seminal & important books on the impact of Big Tech in the world today”
- Giles Crouch, digital anthropologist

"Many will speak to futurists and futurism and say these types of people are before their time. Alexis Wichowski is not before her time. She is right on time"

- Jon Alexander Cinman, Complexity Adventures