The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence

Or they could just require that services targeting their residents be provided by locally incorporated and taxed subsidiaries. China itself already does so with its Great Firewall and requirements that foreign companies partner with local ones; Russia's rule that personal data be kept on servers in the country is another example.

In that light, the "real threat" is nationalization and compartmentalization of the once global network as its growing economic importance makes a hands-off approach politically untenable.

I assume you can be quite productive today - even without money, using knowledge - and other schemes of cooperations could emerge.