On this special episode of POWER PLAYS, Jacob Helberg from Stanford University's Center on Geopolitics and Technology introduces listeners to the global tech-fueled struggle between the U.S.-led democracies and China-led autocracies that is redefining international politics. The stakes of this "Gray War", as Helberg terms it in his new book THE WIRES OF WAR, are high and time is running out for America to address and win this war. If China reaches a point of self-sufficiency and what Helberg describes in the show as "escape velocity", it will be too late for the U.S. to prevent China from achieving its political vision of a more autocratic world safe for the Chinese Communist Party.

A transcript of today's conversation can be found online: https://www.powerplays.xyz/podcast/s2-e9

Disclaimer: Simon & Schuster provided POWER PLAYS with an advance copy of THE WIRES OF WAR prior to its publication to inform this interview. However, this is not a sponsored episode.

Amber Case is a futurist and a Mozilla Fellow exploring how the future of money can generate new business models for compensating creators. She is also an advisor to the Puma Browser and has previously held fellowships at the Institute for the Future, MIT Media Lab, and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Today on POWER PLAYS she tells Ayden Férdeline why she is excited for the Internet of 2031 - and what she imagines it might look like.

A transcript of this conversation can be found online: https://www.powerplays.xyz/podcast/s2-e8

Today on POWER PLAYS presented by Grant for the Web, Interledger Foundation executive director Briana Marbury speaks with Ayden Férdeline about financial inclusion and advancing open payment standards and technologies that seamlessly connect our global society.

You can find a transcript of today's conversation here: https://www.powerplays.xyz/podcast/s2-e7