Techno determinism. The belief that we can't choose not to develop a technology as a species, so various people decide they don't want the other guy to get it f

Techno determinism. The belief that we can't choose not to develop a technology as a species, so various people decide they don't want the other guy to get it first. We all end up worse off. It's a kind of self-conscious, sometimes ideological, prisoner's dilemma.