Re: No public details, no domains
I get a terrifying feeling of (inter)National Socialist deja Vu whenever I hear the phrase 'control of a global body'
Having just finished reading 'Guns Germs Steel' the main conclusion is that Europe became dominant in technology because they were NOT under a single rule, Eurasia was the place where everything originated and spread, due to geography, but Europe was the place it carried on developing, because of geography.
Its small countries separated by natural barriers.
The EU is in fact counter evolutionary. It was the monolithic nature of Chinese bureaucracy and culture that allowed all the major inventions it made to be suppressed for millennia. We are seeing the same thing now with e.g. nuclear power in the EU.
Wars push development at fearsome rates. The Internet is the response to a need for a missile proof command and control military network. The integrated circuit is the result of cold war missile development. So is GPS. The computer itself owes its origins to the need to crack advanced ciphers. The Jet engine to the need for advanced fighters and bombers.
The EU likes to claim that it has kept the peace in Europe. But at what price? Europe is scarcely at the forefront of anything any more, except mass immigration.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
