This looks promising:
It is a common sneer that “those guys” are mired in a culture that is a millenium out of date. But it is worth remembering that it is entirely possible, if you are an adult, that you may well have known someone who remembers an America or a Britain or a France that, at night, was Fricken Dark. And while it is another common sneer that the “Gilded Age” of robber barons and unfettered capitalism was just Terribly Awful And Not At All Progressive… that culture of greed, massive egos and rampaging, unflinching and often cruel progress lit up the world. In a remarkably short time, due to the grasping desire of a few men for knowledge, power and money, the West went from streets filled with horse crap, water filled with cholera and the night filled with the dim squint of a few gas lamps to cities where the streets were clear, the water clean (-ish) and the night brightly lit and the superstitions of the dark largely swept away. The comparison between, say, 1870 and 1910 makes the advances of 1980 to 2020 look like garbage. Yay, now we have social media. Whoopadeedoo.
The closest to the “Current War” we have today *might* be something like the vague competition between SpaceX and Blue origin. I hope that that race to colonize the universe is as fruitful as the fight among Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla.
And on that subject…