Two things this week gave clues about the global future

There's a good chance we'll have an AI war like that one, except this time involving Chinese firms vs American ones.The analogy is apt, so it's worth recalling what happened with internet browsers.The first browser war was between Netscape and Microsoft and started when Netscape Navigator launched in 1994 Google built Chrome in 2008, sparking what became known as the second browser war, not because it wanted to be in the browser software business, but because its entire (by then) multi-billion-dollar business relied on internet search, via other peoples' browsers — mainly Microsoft Explorer, Firefox and, by then, Apple's Safari.They realised that if Microsoft (via Internet Explorer) or Apple (via Safari) decided to change the default search engine to Bing or Yahoo, Google could have been wiped out overnight