In this episode Jamie meets up with John P. Carlin (https://www.mofo.com/people/john-carlin.html) , author of Dawn of the Code War (https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Code-War-Americas-Against-ebook/dp/B079M8813N) and former Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division to discuss the ongoing network war with China -- one that's about to ratchet up, as 5G connects billions of devices via a technology heavily dependent on China's Huawei.
What does it mean to wage war in the era of distributed networks? How do networks change the very idea of 'Command and Control' towards leaderless, non-hierarchical memetic structures? We dig into crowdsourced terrorism' of Al Qaeda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda) and look at some similarities with Anonymous and the QAnon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon) phenomenon.
Finally, we discuss the widespread idea that there's a kind of break with authority going on in the online era—what could be described as an 'epistemological crisis' created by our hyper-informational environment—one that's being exploited and amplified by various lords of chaos to create new and unpredictable political realities.