Digital Capitalism in the 2020s: Dividing the World

Abstract

Digital capitalism developed in the United States in the crucible of World War II. Momentum came from high-tech weaponry, led by radar, early computing machines, and atomic bombs; and from the global war’s acceleration of information-processing demands for logistics. With the erection of a permanent US war economy to support US global power during the battles against socialism and radical nationalism that followed,1 a new political-economic formation began to emerge.