In his first speech in office he declared that the world is being actively reshaped with profound consequences for national and international security. According to Blaise Metreweli, control over strategic technologies has made power more diffuse, unpredictable and difficult to contain. She summarized the current moment as an ambiguous space between peace and war, making clear that this is neither a temporary transition nor an inevitable and slow process.
In practice what it describes is a structural change. Information technologies, digital platforms, algorithms and global networks have come to influence elections, markets, public opinions, even foreign policies, something that previously required entire states, today can be done by private companies with planetary reach.
Information that was once an element of social cohesion has become a weapon, lies spread faster than facts, algorithms reinforce prejudices, and hyperconnected societies end up more fragmented and isolated.
The weight of the statement increases when it comes from someone who knows the game of power from within, MI6, since the end of the Second World War, was involved in dozens of secret operations to influence governments around the world, when an agency with that history claims to recognize a hostile takeover, the warning takes on another dimension.
For Blaise Metreweli, technology companies are coming dangerously close to exercising a type of control that only states previously achieved. Curiously, he avoided singling out names or directly criticizing tech monopolies, instead focusing on the erosion of public trust. This reveals a deeper concern, the alert is not just about corporate power, but about who should have global command.
Blaise Metreweli, trained within the British elite and with a career linked to the defense of the interests of the State, does not question the system, she disputes its control, deep down, the message is clear, the world seems to be changing hands and if in fact technology companies have too much power, I ask you, who should rule the planet and who is it that decides that?
