[thfuran]

>I think most people would agree that innovations like the Internet would be much worse with a fraction of their potential if they had been subjected to regulation and governance before their formative period had passed.

When do you think that would've happened without ARPANET? I don't think anyone should celebrate governments becoming too polarized or too ossified to effectively interact with technological advances.

[infoseek12]

Probably after a couple more years. ARPANET accelerated progress but the idea of large interconnected networks is an obviously useful one and the technology to build was coming to maturity at that point in time.

In an ideal world I agree with you with you about effective governance, in the one we live in I’m not so sure.