"GEOPOLITECH - The secret geopolitics of technology: The Dawn of a New Power"

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There is a satellite photograph on a screen, and it says nothing. Some sea, a river, farmland, and at the centre a cluster of grey rectangles too regular to be a village. It took me years to understand that I was looking at one of the most important battlefields on the planet. And I couldn't see it for one reason only: nobody had ever taught me how to look. This book is the attempt to teach you. Power is no longer where you look for it. Not in palaces, not in flags, not in treaties. It is in one factory, on one island, that nine out of ten advanced chips pass through; in five hundred cables lying on the ocean floor, carrying almost everything you call the internet; in thousands of eyes in low orbit photographing the Earth every day, for anyone who knows how to ask. Kevin Escoda walks these chokepoints one by one: sand becoming silicon, the blow that leaves no shell casing, the eyes that changed masters, reserves turned into weapons, the wire and the sky, the rules of the game. All the way to the closing question: WHO OWNS THE MAP? Then the book does what geopolitics books almost never do: it proves it. - The closing **DOSSIER** holds three complete investigations, conducted entirely on open sources, verifiable by you, tonight, from your sofa. A coral reef becoming a military island under the gaze of civilian satellites. A student in California who finds a field of missile silos in the Chinese desert by buying imagery that is on sale to anyone. A red traffic line on a public map that, at a quarter past three on a February morning, announced an invasion before any official statement. No leaks. No classified documents. No secret sources. All of it public: that is what should worry you. Third and final volume of the trilogy "The Architecture of the New World - from code to matter". The first followed money. The second followed thought. This one follows power, and finds where it went to hide.