Ask yourself this -- if all this happened during the cold war, would it have been considered anything special or different compared to other technologies or eve

Ask yourself this -- if all this happened during the cold war, would it have been considered anything special or different compared to other technologies or events? Or would it just have been our computing machine vs that godless commie one, and we'd all keep on keeping on trying to land on the moon or not lose our respective war somewhere? I submit that it is not anything special, certainly pales in comparison to the atomic bomb. It's merely that we live in that weird end tail of the age of ideology where strong overarching ideologies came to (and are coming to) an end, where we're all scattered to the various geopolitical winds and in the absence of a strong guiding state and vision (communism vs capitalism) become more extreme and perturbed. If you do want regulation, It should be something proper hashed out diplomatically and economically between Nation States and their respective blocs, no crony capitalist allowed, sorry. The rest of the world shan't be going along with something that economically cripples them.