Ballcoin will be a thing

I am talking about optical processors.
The processor China uses to crank out a new LLM in a day.

Google it, it is not complicated.

No idea why you think Europe, or its politicians, are afraid about or are against the internet.

That does not make any sense.

I see. When you witnessed this demonstration, 46 years ago, did they mention anything about surveillance capitalism? How about online radicalization? Was the potential for the disruption of "community cohesion" brought up? We're there any thoughts shared on the matter of pirating copyrighted digital content? How much time did they spend on "digital sovereignty" and the future dominance of US based Big Tech over global data and communication?

I suspect not much. So perhaps we're not really discussing the same matter, are we?

> I suspect that's often true, but certainly not universal.

My observation is that it's quite often true. If our observations differ, so be it.

The Soviets appeared to concede at that point. They cancelled their manned lunar program.

Took Apollo technology to make that broom fly.

It is exactly the same.

Just one technology lost and the other one won.

Similar to VHS versus .... well, don't remember how it was called.

I do not know much about the protocols of Gopher, but instead of HTML they used TeX/LaTeX.

Not sure about what you want to argue.

The processors will soon all be optical.

Anyway, *using* an LLM does not cost much.

So, I do not what your point is. I would assume that people/companies that spent the money to try that, know what they are doing.

Nah. I'll leave you to the whataboutery.

Tim Berners-Lee invented hypertext while working at CERN.
Which has nothing to do with internet, but is a protocol and mark up language that runs

on top of the internet.

He invented the world wide web. And that is actually only a reinvention: as we had gopher already, and wide area information services (WAIS/WISE?)

The internet is DARPA and the follow ups: TCP/IP and the surrounding infra structure protocols like DNS.

Europe is essentially incompatible with the internet. They never asked for it, and it's been nothing but trouble for Europe ever since it appeared. Had the clueless politicians you mention understood what it was at the time, they would have outlawed it immediately.

But humans won't thrive when this ice age ends.
Most of them will perish.

Nope.
The artic stays the artic.
Much to short growth time to grow anything meaningful.
And: the soil there is not fertile at all. It is frozen swamps and moors.

To click where the troops should go, for everything else you use the keyboard.