Balaji Srinivasan

And that was not the case in the 80s and 90s, right?

We have essentially been teleported into the matrix right now.

You watching this, hearing this, you are in the matrix.

Shout out to all the fans, all the viewers.

Yeah, all the fans.

Exactly.

That's right.

We're monitoring the situation where?

On the internet, right?

So the global internet, you know, the closest precedent to it, by the way, just to digress on this for a second, is the ocean.

And the reason is, you know, there's something called the law of the sea.

The law of the sea governs how, you know, because you have ships that are going from Britain to Hong Kong to Brazil and so on.

And so you have international waters.

And what country controls that?

And you could very legitimately have something that was thousands of miles away, but it's flagged British or Portuguese or what have you.

And so for hundreds of years, there's something called the law of the sea that kind of governs that.

Like when you're sending a packet.

from one port to another port, what law governs that?

And we actually use the same words today.

When you open up a computer, you have one port and it's sending packets to another port, right?