For one classic feudalism was dezentral, one lord per land, while technofeudalism is very much global and centralized.
The Pope was literally the ultimate, central authority in European feudalism. At the time, it also encompassed most of the known world, making this a non-difference.
Today data replaces the land ownership, rent for data or access to service instead of land.
That really doesn’t seem like a difference at all. Land was (and still is) used for its resources and power over others. Same thing with digital data. However, to say that data is replacing land, I think, would be extremely incorrect. Datacenters require land and there’s been a significant effort to centralize land ownership, forcing people to pay rent to live anywhere.
While they certainly are similar in power symmetry, the rent model and dependency, there are some differences:
The Pope was literally the ultimate, central authority in European feudalism. At the time, it also encompassed most of the known world, making this a non-difference.
That really doesn’t seem like a difference at all. Land was (and still is) used for its resources and power over others. Same thing with digital data. However, to say that data is replacing land, I think, would be extremely incorrect. Datacenters require land and there’s been a significant effort to centralize land ownership, forcing people to pay rent to live anywhere.