Thinking about the changes in technology and the effects it has on society and governments, I am more and more inclined to believe that there will be a growing divide between the type of people that are willing to adapt and produce and those that just want to sit around consuming.
Everywhere I look, I see the old ways slowly crumbling and I believe that new ways are showing up at exponential speeds. This will certainly cause a lot of disruption and trouble for many people.
These changes seem to be invigorating for society but they are suffocating and replacing the perceived need for governments with more voluntary solutions and concepts.
People say that nothing is new under the moon, right? Has there ever been a time like this, though?
We have the option to use these tools for good and evil. I have no doubt that we will see plenty of both, but it is going to harder and harder for monopolies to maintain their grasp. What evil that can be done is minuscule compared to the scale that governments have done.
How does this mean that there will be a growing divide between those that will and those that will not?
One thing that monopolies (ie government) tend do is slow the pace and allow a populace to get comfortable. People find ways to suck off them and those methods tend to work for quite some time without the desire for advancement.
I believe that rapidly advanceing decentralized technologies go hand in hand with a more robust and peaceful one, but the people that benefit the most will by necessity need to develop a culture of fluidity and action.
