>>I liked this point about computers/information ;
>>Just when they tought 'everything is under control' , k-boom / there comes computers/internet to spoil the 'bride happyness' :)
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>Yes - the new samisdat . Pretty hard for the big boys to control information.

That's samizdat, BTW. But yes, the best thing the American Military Whatever has ever done was to create the foundations of Internet. You haven't been around here in 1999 (or not with this photo, anyway), so I don't know whether you remember that we kept talking here and elsewhere, kept exchanging emails etc while our countries were at war with each other. It's probably the first time in history that there was a widespread real-time communication between the peoples of warring sides.

>And of course there was that thing about at any moment the whole world might blow up <

It still can. I don't see any great change there, except the multiplication of capable players, and the politics that increases the chance of one of them getting sufficiently PO'd at some point.