Technology cannot replace society. It is good to have a progressive vision for the future in which technological change plays a constructive part but the preexisting cultural character and material constraints of the world as it exists will play an important role regardless. There is not going to be a Year Zero revolution involving some new technology that completely breaks with the past. Not even the internet has done that: It has only provided a new forum for the old debates and conflicts to continue to play out.

As a wise statesman once said, "what can be shall always remain burdened by what has been."

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Makes a lot of sensennI've always thought of what would be when the world goes full scale technology, a lot of things have been affected though and depression levels have risen.nnBut the past is always the source that has kept on driving the future.