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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I want to set a remindme, b/c I'm pretty confident we'll see something global (or anarchic) before the end of the decade.