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That's a pretty speculative causal conclusion, if a causal conclusion is what "no fluke" is getting at. The rapid advance of computers and the internet because it's the big recent technology. Many ages have their new technologies that undergo rapid advances, and computing is this age's. You could've predicted in the 1950s, and many people did, that computing would be the big technology of the 20th century, long before you had any idea how its regulation would play out.