World war inﬁnity: Security through economy, economy through security
Year: 2015

The world is at war. It is at war against you and me. Against us. This is not a
classical “world war,” with bombs and bullets or national armies facing each
other on ﬁelds of battle. It is not even the Global War on Terrorism, brought
to life by George W. Bush in 2001 and buried by Barack Obama in 2009.
Rather, this world war is a hybrid that merges economy and security and utilizes the data-or “pocket litter”—that individuals generate as they go about
their daily activities. Increasingly, these