Chances are the technology would be used in the military first to give the US an even bigger advantage. From there it MIGHT slowly be added to the civilian world.
Question you have to ask, say in 20 years the US has completely switched from coal to natural gas, and with good prices everything is humming right along. Given the inevitable expensive price tag of a fusion reactor for both electricity generation and transportation, what exactly will motivate the US, or any other 1st world country to introduce the technology on a global scale?
Unless the technology is SO simple that anyone can build it(which it won't be for a LONG time).....I don't think it will 'change the world' the way everyone is thinking.
If the US is the first country to come up with it, they will introduce it throughout the military, and keep companies like Lockheed from selling it to anyone else.
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