201 The Quantum Governance of Capital

The Neolib Gov period, which began immediately after the failure of the boomer rebellion, had been an ideal breeding ground for the nekomemetic disease. Under the command of the Ecofin AltaSphere, a new upsurge in globalization supported by neural technologies, was a major factor in the spread of the virus. If the great epidemics due to material viruses spread ever more rapidly thanks to the speed of modern transportation, the nekomemetic one was moving over networks at previously unimaginable speeds.

After the unrest in China following the end of the Long Spring Project and the Second Civil War that lingered in the United States, many weaker PoS/tates tumbled into an ungovernable chaos. As the Ecofin AltaSphere gained power from afar, PoS/tate institutional and political power sank increasingly into crisis. In order not to lose control over these vast territories that contained strategic raw materials essential for the construction of space elevators, a quantum leap in governance proved indispensable.

The two-phase system (State-Post/State and Capital-HighSphere) was now too unbalanced in favor of the latter and becoming less and less cohesive as the HighSphere receded toward orbiting stations, while on Earth living conditions continued to deteriorate.

Only using a quantum implementation would Gov be able to exploit spacetimemattering, the inseparability of space, time and matter.

Even before it was called AltaSfera Ecofin, capitalism had already used quantum theory with the Manhattan Project where "the smallest of the smallest of fragments, the heart of the atom had been broken with such violence that it shook the earth and the sky" and the "force deployed on a millionth of a billionth of a meter had taken on global proportions, destroying cities in a flash and reconfiguring geopolitical alliances, energy resources, and power relations on a global scale."

Now it was looking for something equally powerful to hold itself together for the little time it had left as it was inexorably unraveling. This would have been a technopolitical transformation of the two-stage system that required enormous computing power and other quantum technologies. It would have been an impossible transformation to achieve in a timeframe compatible with the onrushing sepsis of Gaia if they had started from scratch. But the enormous effort to build the space elevators was opening a window. It was the techno-tycoons of the AltaSphere who were investing in quantum devices and particularly in Q-farms. These were the new computing centers with a much greater jump in computational capacity in scale than in the era of Web farms and the Cloud. Governance now had the technological power to regain true (remote) control of the situation. At last the biosphere became the black box from which to extract what was needed for the future of a new Quantum Governance – soon abbreviated "Gov Q" by the media.

A brief parenthesis about quantum mechanics, the theory where physics and metaphysics brush up against each other like the two hands of Creation in the Sistine Chapel, as Aunt Barad has shown us. Once again, we confirmed that humans could bend the use of their scientific discoveries in different and even opposite directions.

In the case of quantum mechanics, on the one hand we would see Gov Q's use of it to derive technologies that obviously ended up amplifying the nekomemetic disease. They not only have aggravated Gaia's septicaemia but also threatened other planets as Gov Q had completed the Great Escape project. On the other hand, quantum mechanics had inspired Aunt Barad's philosophy that the components of Gaia (human and nonhuman, objects and environments) exist only through intra-actions. That is, through connections and relationships that are constantly happening and that constitute reality itself. Perhaps we should have started from these very mechanisms, which regulate the emergence, mutation and disappearance of life forms, in order to stop the septicemia of Gaia. We'll talk about this later, but for the moment it was Gov Q who was using this extraordinary discovery to prolong capitalist rule.

Now back to Gov Q's goal of making the two-phase machine, AltaSphere Ecofin and PoS/tates, plus a third, WorldForce (more on them later) work in quantum entanglement. It's a strange and mysterious link whereby two or more particles produced simultaneously by a physical interaction remain related in spacetime regardless of the distance between them. This relationship allows the first particle to affect the second instantaneously and vice versa and implies that quantum particles cannot be described as independent entities, but rather as parts of an interconnected system.

Exploiting these properties, applying them to quantum state-dependent and spatially separated subsystems even at virtually unlimited distances, was the diktat imposed on technoscience by management in the Neolib finale. The new Gov Q was to be capable of essential and instantaneous controls on Earth, even if launched from great distances, from space or even from Mars. What was previously impossible to achieve with silicon and traditional computing technologies would now become possible with computing power, algorithms, and quantum technologies. Every decision (or law, decree, rule, speech, etc.) emanating from an instance of governance would have immediate effects everywhere. The process would be implemented in the most appropriate way by spreading instantaneously through the activating of a series of specific methods and/or rules that included multiple parameters and variables including hierarchies, relevance, scalability, etc.

The new Gov Q wanted to create a functioning between PoSt/ates and AltaSphere Ecofin (the old state-capital pair) of unprecedented speed and precision and where human intervention was reduced to essential decisions.

The long march of transferring economic and financial power from public to private had characterized the Gov Neolib century. Now, with Gov Q, these mechanisms would enter the quantum entanglement phase of public-private. A structural link whereby it was impossible to operate or undertake any public activity or initiative without implicating the private. This link, which with Neolib Gov was based on political will, was now, according to Gov Q's plans, entering a phase of indissolubility in which the quantum algorithm would allow exponential acceleration over classical political procedures.

When, for example, the AltaSphere decided that more europium was needed in the High Frontier project to speed up the construction of space elevators, for the first time a workflow managed by quantum algorithmics succeeded in reducing the order execution time tenfold by increasing production accordingly. Among other things, thanks to quantum computing, a worldwide right of first refusal on all necessary extractions had been established in record time bypassing national legislations, public interests, protection of citizens, etc. Preemptions that, when necessary, were also imposed by force, which then generated a series of ecological and social problems that had not been taken into account because they were considered of secondary importance. All the power thus deployed would, however, meet its limits in human action in the areas most in the grip of Gaia's septicemia, not to mention those whose control had been lost.

In any case, the new Gov Q system was taking shape, and a third phase would be added to the two phases of the neolib machine: WorldForce.