It’s fair to call what I did a linguistic trick, but that cuts both ways—it’s equally a linguistic trick to say that my original question assumed a small number of technologies. I did have possibilities like the one you mention in mind when I wrote the question, though in retrospect I didn’t make that clear. I think the possibility you raise is a good one, and similar to Abram’s.
It’s fair to call what I did a linguistic trick, but that cuts both ways—it’s equally a linguistic trick to say that my original question assumed a small number of technologies. I did have possibilities like the one you mention in mind when I wrote the question, though in retrospect I didn’t make that clear. I think the possibility you raise is a good one, and similar to Abram’s.