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Was a singleton likely to emerge in previous technological transitions?
Communism and the Internet seem the most likely candidates to approach ability to form a Singleton. But a Singleton by definition can stop evolutionary processes at all levels of complexity and system dynamics below itself. Neither the internet or communism can sustain sufficient levels of coordination to stymie evolution.