Interviews
Maya Chen on the Future of Remote Sovereignty
Defining the boundaries of the digital nation state, and what it owes the people who live inside it.
We met in a quiet corner of a hotel lobby in Lisbon, where Maya Chen had spent the morning arguing — patiently, repeatedly — that the people who build internet infrastructure are no longer comfortable describing themselves as merely technical.
'You don't get to move billions of dollars across borders without becoming a kind of government,' she said. 'The only question is whether you admit it.'
About the author
Elena Rossi
Elena writes about taste, attention, and the economics of culture. Previously at The Atlantic and Rest of World.
