in the same way that George Washington set a precedent by stepping down after two terms as President (he could very well have crowned himself if he wanted), I'm waiting to see if Larry Page's Google will set a precedent before I pass final judgment on Google's corporate existence

Even so, a number of governments have already fallen or been pressured by it; we see repressive regimes like China throwing all kinds of defenses up against it. I don't see how even China can stand against it for very long. Assange gets this, at least on some level. That would mean America wins

I'm curious: why do you think that's at all relevant to any other part of this thread?

"And that is even before getting to the engineering problem of reliable software. When Boeing built their recent airline software package, it took 5-8 years to get something that was reliable enough for air travel."

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.

It is a more reasonable assumption that the computational power will continue to increase in line with the long term trend than that it will not, lacking evidence to the contrary.