Imagine how fucking cool it would be if we still had the free market of the 1980s but the digital revolution of the internet at the same time. Forget just CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray. We could have advanced digital cassettes that could store 8TB worth of music and videos for various consoles connected to TVs and new stereo sets that could random shuffle your collections. DVD discs that could hold 2TB of data each. AI players that could scan your favorite movies and TV shows and make continuous new AI generated remakes. AI video game systems that generate new versions of your favorite games and you could burn them to discs. All kinds of really cool stuff.

But no..... gotta use AI and technology to kill people in wars and spy on all of us instead! Fucking governments suck.