If we define 'governor' as a system whose task it is to regulate sth to keep it at a constant level, a good successful existing example would be central banks. They regulate money supply in order to keep inflation at a constant, prescribed, level.
Yep, the international law that such a mechanism would require would inevitably be broken by the usual suspects. We're just not capable enough of organizing ourselves as a species.
Balls any smaller just wouldn't do justice to such a powerful machine
This would stop the currently exponential pace of growth from outpacing what society, and regulation, can adapt to. Thus avoiding the inevitable crash that will happen when we lose control of the exponentially accelerating train of technology, and it flies off the rails.
That's it, I'm switching to Anarchy Chess.
No coffee
Now that's a YouTube sketch I'd watch
ist unmessbar
Nicht mit dieser Einstellung
Hast du etwa keine Notfall-Marmelade für gerade diesen Fall?
In that case it is the technological developments whose pace needs to be dampened, because it is those that pose the danger.