This interdependence between technology and systems of government is a new idea for me. It hadn't really occurred to me until you said it just earlier that we needed the printing press to have large-scale democracies. This could quite possibly make us very concerned about the evolution of a country like China, where artificial intelligence combined with surveillance technology maps onto such a state.

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