Artificial Intelligence, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models

The linked article attempts to predict the adoption of AI.  It says the following regarding some of the "most relevant facts" about similar adoptions in the past:

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Regulations that facilitate or impede technical progress, education and infrastructure, and attitudes toward the social change that accompanies new technologies matter as much as the technologies [themselves], pointing to the need for complementary policies that shape the economy and society.

Looking back over the past two decades, can you recall any particularly good or bad regulations that facilitated or impeded the adoption of information technology (i.e., digital home and business)?