UK Govt Threatens to Ban Twitter And Potentially Jail Elon Musk If He Allows Free Speech
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I heard a fun idea that various peoples should intentionally make their technology incompatible with everyone else. Everything from bolts to computer architecture would be as diverse as power sockets.
Suppossedly, railroad standards were different in different nations to prevent an invader from taking control of one end of a line and blitzing through your land. Tech could learn a thing or two.
That was sometimes a consideration in rail standards. Other times, it was politics or nationalism or simply because that's what they built. In the case of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Hungarians liked to assert that they were separate and rail gauge was one of the ways they did it, which was a bit of a problem for Austrian logistics in WW1.
That sounds like a great thing.