A computestate is a state whose power rests on computation: chips, fabs, data centers, cables. The US is primarily a chipstate IMHO, whatever its oil fields say.
How the word moved
I first said it in September 2025, in the Electrostates essay. By October 2025 computestates had joined electrostates as keystone species of the global metabolism.
In my words
"though the US is primarily a chipstate IMHO"
from Bhumics: The Weekly Planet #6 - Electrostates, 29 Sep 2025
Related
- Related Petrostate - the US is both.
- Related Compute Sovereignty - the sovereignty a computestate seeks.
- Related Silicarbon - the silicon side of it.