Look at the way age gating is going in a global coordinated push. Can control of compute be far behind?

It wasn't my primary motivator but it hasn't made me regret my decision.

I hummed and hawed on it for a good few months myself.

Just look at ITAR and the various attempts at legislating 3D printing and CNC machining of firearms parts to see one justification point of that.

> Can control of compute be far behind?

How is this going to work? You need uncontrolled compute for developing software. Any country locking up that ability too much will lose to those who don't.