Citizen Thiel, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Surveillance Volcano
If the world were a Bond film, Peter Thiel would be the soft-spoken gentleman sipping a protein shake in the villain’s lair, quietly buying the volcano and re-branding it as a sovereign cloud-hosting zone. From Silicon Valley to Singapore, from Washington to Wellington, the German-born, New Zealand-naturalised, American billionaire drifts like a well-funded ghost—always present,…