I wish there was a formula to be able to visualize what percent of new technological capacities are actually adopted, by the population.

For example, the internet. The internet, or more specifically the virtually unabridged access to information it provides, is arguably massively underutilized by the majority of people.

In theory, it is able to level the informational playing field, giving people the ability to bridge gaps, previously logistically impossible.

However, most people today don’t view / use the internet for such purposes, despite having virtually zero material hurdles to do so.

If we as a society understand this, what benefit (even theoretical) do “the powers that be” really have to gain from this potential Utopia.

This leads me to the idea itself, the vision. How biologically congruent is a world where there in no need for want, conflict, need, ie a reason to evolve. Can life exist as a puddle of ever-growing “happiness” statically, for anything other than a brief period of time? Excuse the analogy, but is that not what cancers and viruses do?

Lastly, I think as a people we should better understand that we are “the powers that be”. I don’t mean, picketing down the street, writing to your congressman type of way.

I mean in our daily lives. There wouldn’t be grinding widely accepted exploitation if we didn’t value $3.99 strawberries over some poor schmuck’s “abstract” suffering.

We are the market and we have spoken. Power itself is the system, propagated by time, yet fueled by its consumers.

While there are lizard men out there with ungodly amounts of power, their status is in some (very real) way tied to our emotianal satiety in some manner.

Even the wealthiest oil barron could be made irrelevant, if as a society demonstrated our priorities were else where.

Thank you, for your wide reading of the current climate. I think it is going to take a similar multi-disciplinary approach to be able to really navigate the next phases of life as humans.