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Is it really so hard? The technology we have mostly helps people to free themselves from non-US, non-western-European "oppressing" governments (so basically all their enemies get trouble with their population, and the population becomes more open to our culture and more dependent on our technology).

But inside our borders we become more and more dependent on the technology, have less and less insight into what is happening in this technology. Also increasing the power of forementioned US and western European governments.

The only thing maybe becoming a problem is the eastern hemisphere with China, Russia, S.Korea, Japan and Taiwan (if they decide to work together, but happy for us they are pretty much split in the middle).