Comment by immibis
5 days ago
or maybe they just don't think automated mass surveillance is a worthwhile innovation.
Like the atom bomb, you know - you shouldn't get to drop one in the middle of the city just because you invented it. Not even if it's very profitable.
The atom bomb ushered an unprecedented era of peace between nuclear armed countries.
The number of men dying or getting wounded in war as a percentage of population has gone down dramatically post-nuclear.
Conventional meat-grinder warfare is all but over in nuclear countries, and we can probably thank it for not being sent to war ourselves.
We also got atomic energy out of it which is cool.