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This seems a bit exaggerated. We have maritime law, telephony agreements, bern convention, international aviation regulations that were developed over time as
by mc32 5y ago
This seems a bit exaggerated. We have maritime law, telephony agreements, bern convention, international aviation regulations that were developed over time as the need became critical.
I suspect similar will happen as space matures from frontier to settled.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoAll those things were seeded in different eras. The world is different today. Look at something like the Internet. Completely unregulated, and in the span of a decade has torn societies apart and undone many cultural norms because of rampant tech conglomerates doing whatever they want. And there's virtually no will at all to do anything about it. The best the US can do is inept boomer Congressmen yelling at Zuckerberg why FaceBook doesn't work on their phones.
- mc32 5y agoWe’ll see. The internet is or was different. It was passing bits around the globe. Making it into a turnpike would have stymied development. Fragmentation seems to be emerging with some locales wanting or needing more local control of content. That will likely increase with the success of the GFC and its implementation in ex-USSR satellites as well as in Russia itself.
- cletus 5y agoI think maritime law and safety is a good example of my point: the path to maritime law is paved in centuries of blood. And here's the kicker: this didn't even require global collective action. This required governments to police a narrow industry. That's so much easier and yet even then it took centuries.