Video games have played with this power before, of course.
Snowden has shown us that they cannot be trusted with this power.
Video game designers become familiar with this power early into their careers.
As long as they side with the Kremlin, they can identify themselves with this power and glory.
With this power, often, comes an arrogance and an inability to size up the world outside the studio.
We have no idea what we are going to do with this power, but it will exist whether we want it to or not.
And likewise the Constitutional Council, France's highest court.Quite what Mr Chirac will do with this power, unprecedented in the Fifth Republic's 44 years, is unclear.
Hagel, who will travel to China later this week, called the Asian nation a "great power" and said: "With this power comes new and wider responsibilities as to how you use that power, how you employ that military power".
But can we trust the state with this power?
What Nardelli does with this power will be interesting.
