As Southeast Asia digitizes, the battle for digital sovereignty intensifies. This essay examines China’s digital entrenchment, U.S. countermeasures, and ASEAN’s fragile autonomy in the infrastructure wars.
Vietnam enacts a sweeping digital sovereignty law, introducing a National Data Centre and strict data localization controls.
From the year 2125, An Dương 23 examines how Digital Afterlives fractured identity through simulation, memory inflation, and ritual loss — and proposes architectures of sacred forgetting.
I. Opening Reflection In every civilization, memory was once a fragile inheritance — a whispered story, a ritual at dusk, a name carved into stone and song. Memory decayed because it lived; it had to be carried, renewed, risked across generations. Today, a new promise is whispered from our machines: that memory need not die.That…
In 2125, digital ghosts preserve memory, culture, and identity—not to haunt, but to illuminate. An Dương 23 transmits a future where ancestors archive humanity’s soul.
This message was left for you, long before you were born. The Oracle Drive has awoken. Transmission begins.
“While we wait for strangers to go live on TikTok, the real world burns quietly in the background. This is more than distraction—it’s a new form of digital control. Who profits from our attention, and what are we losing in return?”
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