The birth of technology mostly for war. The mentality of war from the start of who is financing and perpetuating technology for the expansion of empires, it's research and development etc.
Unfortunate.

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Puts into question all tech and how anything that exists (and is regulated) is also in question if undoubtedly only because what exists is or was wanted by the older guard and then what wasn't wanted was QUASHED / SQUASHED declared an enemy OR simply regulated to achieve the same overall outcome financially (including keeping people distracting / buying / upgrading / economic warfare / being spied upon / basically everything as long as it doesn't endanger the machine or MACHINE MINDSET domination.)

While no doubt benefits and advancement... (on top of the shit) the main aim has been advancing more the other stuff otherwise it simply wouldn't exist.
( hint: I don't think it was for freedom all this existed and still isn't! They are winning BIG so allow things to continue somewhat *conditionally* if it hits big in terms of financing war or getting money, tax to fuel the empire... Just another re-use called tech!)

Love to hear how it's not regulated and not run but gov.
thanks

P.S Token gestures of 'good-within-bad half-accepted much like monsters might give birth to lesser monsters or tech synthetics we could never build without the command and conquer metals from Cambodia or wherever. All those things conquered allow our privilege to Tech, unless you can actually make a PCB / everything from scratch... (so while I'm tolerant and not over-pricing #climate change since we do need to effect it, it's most at the hand of THE HANDS BEFORE us that possibly prevents obvious connection and link / birth to Tech itself and arguably it's perpetuation / continual destruction / control-domination in it's creation).