All civilizations are very different than others before. I am not convinced that universal computation is enough of a game changer to make us different enough. Older civs each had access to tech the ones before hadn't. The one constant is human behaviour.

the difference is that with computers we have ai and with modern forms of energy we have machines and knowledge previous generations couldnt even think about.

> History is not littered with civilizations that got universal computation and computers to execute them.

All countries have this now. How's this relevant to the point that less complacent countries will eclipse more complacent ones?

almost a billion people dont have reliable access to energy a large part of them dont have any at all

You're so far away from the original point, that computation etc is available to any up and coming competitive country, and thus this computation is not the most the previous commenter was implying it was.

What do you need for computation?