• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
• How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History by Josephine Quinn
• Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber

Internal server (Home Assistant etc.): domus
External server (Nextcloud etc.): nimbus
Router/firewall: murus

I guess in that sense you could say the only “creator” is the Big Bang.

And the honeybee populations least in need of saving are the big commercial operations this tech seems targeted toward. (These operations typically park their hives in random rural locations between jobs, where their bees raid and outcompete local pollinators and carry diseases from region to region.)

I see more comments in this thread warning that everyone here is going to say this than I see comments actually saying it.

Quantum circuits aren’t general-purpose computers—they’re added to conventional computers to allow them to perform a small handful of algorithms more efficiently. I don’t believe any of those algorithms would benefit the basic features of an operating system enough that it would make sense to modify an OS to require the use of one.

(Although I could totally see Microsoft doing something like only licensing their circuit’s drivers to run on Windows.)

I believe so—see Wake-on-LAN.

States are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution from “enter[ing] into any treaty, alliance, or confederation” with foreign states, but there are plenty of cases of state and local governments joining economic partnerships and initiatives.