The old is dying and the new cannot be born (opens in new tab)

"Our current globalised tech industry can only exist because of the protectionism and policy uniformity imposed by the United States on its hegemony." We're in a very odd place. We've clearly come to an end, of sorts, but it's an ongoing end – a decline mixed with stepwise collapses – so we don't get the release that comes with closure or the certainty of knowing your fate.