But such a grassroots liberation of digital information tech from gatekeepers would be awkward for the financialization / speculation game (bigtech is like 30% of stock market value).

Pushing the specialized compute engine angle is a way to push back the inevitable, but its a strange one, because it only offers an advantage for specific algorithms (linear algebra etc.) So the success of this gambit is predicated on turning society into an algorithmically controlled entity.

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