Worth thinking about.

https://ecfr.eu/article/the-fight-for-europes-digital-future/

The fight for Europe’s digital future

… History teaches that the race to replace key technologies – swords with guns, cannons with machine guns, horses with tanks – can be decisive. If the Axis powers had developed nuclear weapons before the Allies, the second world war would have ended very differently.

Because I think this could matter…

https://www.bespacific.com/over-300-companies-have-withdrawn-from-russia-but-some-remain/

Over 300 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia – But Some Remain

“Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, at Yale University. Professor Sonnenfeld has compiled and is updating a listing of 40 companies that remain operating in Russia, with significant business risk exposure. Here is a link to his work on this matter and an updated list of companies via Yale School of Management.

Tools my students should have.

https://www.bespacific.com/russians-are-finding-ways-around-putins-internet-blockade/

Russians Are Finding Ways Around Putin’s Internet Blockade

Bloomberg – “Providers of virtual private networks, or VPNs, are recording a surge in usage from Russia after the Kremlin cracked down on Facebook and other services as part of a broader effort to silence dissent and limit information about its invasion of Ukraine. “In the past week, we saw traffic to our website from Russia increase by around 330% week over week,” Harold Li, vice president of ExpressVPN, said in an email to Bloomberg on Wednesday. As of Tuesday, Russian interest in VPNs was more than eight times pre-invasion levels, according to data gathered by Top10VPN. Usage peaked at more than 10 times on March 5, the day after Facebook and Twitter were blocked by Russian authorities…”

See also The New York Times: 4 Falsehoods Russians Are Told About the War – Russia’s disinformation machine is working in overdrive inside its own borders.