We had already had an "AI is The Future" boom in the 1970s-1980s, rapidly followed by the "AI Winter". (1) Also, we already had government-backed standard netw

We had already had an "AI is The Future" boom in the 1970s-1980s, rapidly followed by the "AI Winter". (1) Also, we already had government-backed standard networking with OSI. The US, UK and EU governments were big OSI backers and didn't want TCP/IP. (2) However, 20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing ;-) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter (2) http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/osi-the-internet...