RE: Cryptocurrency: Fending Off The Dystopian Renaissance

We are living in interesting times with a lot of change that will take place in only a view years. It is true that technology is neutral by nature and that the user decide if it is used for in favor or against humanity. The question that maybe the core here is, are humans as a species mature enough to deal with the technology they are going to invent? It is true that governments and big companies doing what they can to solidify their influence over as many as possible people they get hold of. And that they constantly extract the value out of the systems the find. But it may also be true that these organizations often started in the best interest of humanity and got corrupted over time. States were formed to secure their citizens, to feed them in starving times and give them an identity. Google started with „Do no evil“ as a vision statement. It looks like there are systematical forces that may be grounded in our hardware as a species that constantly are leading the way to authoritarian systems and inhumanity. I hope that the new technologies will bring us closer together in order to strengthen our altruistic and caring aspects. There is a tiny chance that these human abilities may overcome the greed and selfishness that has been cultivated by capitalism for several centuries now.