As Marshall McLuhan spelled out in the 1970's...
James Bond villains with private wealth and technology to control multiple nations isn't fiction. xAI, Grok, space systems, communication systems, multiple factories in multiple nations. Voting and elections become like Russia's Putin, people voting every day with Twitter likes, Mastodon boosts, and power and wealth concentrate. #RealVsUnreal
"Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Already a Leader in Satellites, Gets Into the Spy Game (nytimes.com)"