IMAGINING TOMORROW: BUSINESS FUTURES | 24 OCTOBER 1, 2023 Mäkinen’s group is frustrated that more GMDCs Mäkinen reels off standard examples of innovation aren’t coming to the defense of technology as improving lives: a force for good. Notes Mäkinen: • Community-level solar power, dramatically “These crazy situations, like AutoDrive increasing the availability of electricity. turning off at the France-Belgium • Low-cost satellite networks, spreading Internet border, should provide an opening to access and creating new economic opportunities educate voters on the costs of virtual in emerging countries. borders. Because often those costs But, in the wake of the Bastille Day attacks, La France aren’t obvious.” au Travail has turned “the-Internet-is-good-for-you” on its head: The party warns that spreading Internet “I recently talked to a leading drone manufacturer access means that more cyber terrorism and about how much effort they’re having to put into criminality will emanate from emerging countries protecting their IP in different jurisdictions—and that are supposed to be the beneficiaries of how that complicates the process of improving the technology. their technology. Among other things, their drones And if that argument carries the day, techno-borders are delivering vaccines to remote areas. The more are unlikely to come down any time soon. efficiently they work, the more lives they save.” THTHEE W WORLDORLD OF OF REDESIGNING THE IMAGINATION THE AGE OF ““TETECHCHNONO--PPOLOLIITTIICSCS”” LIFE ECONOMY (IN)SECURITY