All significant advances in technology such as gunpowder and electricity must be distributed widely at first before parasites like governments and elites monopolize them.

We were very, very lucky with key-pair cryptography in 1976. It's enabled so many things, including secure websites and of course bitcoin, that we almost weren't allowed to have.

Some of these technologies are exorbitantly expensive tho, like Nukes and AI, which still requires big data centers. To stop from getting 'check mated' here will require the price of it coming down. -Not the price of the product, but the price of the platform that runs it. That would pretty much require a distributed data network to run it on, so we'd better build one fast b4 the elites checkmate us here too.