Interesting thoughts on the future evolution of our content sharing/ consuming and governmental model. Recent developments vis-à-vis decentralization applications and the acceptance rates of those applications seems to paint a picture that supports your thesis on the former (content sharing/ communication). However, I'm not so sure about how the latter (governmental model overhaul to a trust-less, automated, system) would come to be in the real-world. It may not be too difficult of a sell to a seemingly growing crowd of disenfranchised and dissatisfied citizens/ slaves, but I'm not convinced that the numbers are anywhere close to high enough now, or in the foreseeable future, to revolt against the current system(s) with even a minute chance of success.
Power sits firmly on "their side" and the propaganda-machine is still reaching well over 50% of the populace, probably even better than 75%, IMO.
It may be that we'll evolve towards the type of society that you suggest we are/ might, here, but I'm thinking that it probably won't happen in our lifetimes - I just don't see how it would be possible to stop all the current momentum without decades and decades of battle and massive losses of life. But, who knows, the future is difficult to predict from our myopic frames of reference.
Sadly and selfishly on my end, you are right. It won't finish in our generation, but it has already materialized into forms that we are seeing vibrantly--like Steemit.
The battle has been going on, and I do think it's going to have massive losses like you say. China evidently wrote in their military doctrine 40 years ago to venture into unconventional warfare. They have in development or are developening EMP. Imagine they threw such a device to our electrical grids? Paranoia and hysteria would ensue. But we need to go through this bullshit in order for history to progress. We are habitual creatures, we learn through trial and error. We'll get there...and it's going to be one hell of a ride.
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That's a scary thought. I read a fiction book about a shock-wave from a supernova (can't recall the name, but I think it might have had supernova in the title) that effectively became a world-wide EMP. Long story short, it wasn't a pretty picture - hell comes to mind as an appropriate analogy...speaking of which...
Yeah. It's in situations like this (possibly missing out on the fruits on the other end of a revolution harvest) that I really hope reincarnation is something real. I don't want to tap-out on our species' evolution (so to speak) so early. It's only just beginning to get exciting around here, considering that we're really still at what could, and hopefully will, be the start of an exponential explosion of scientific, technological, and medical innovations.
I read and hear that it's possible within our lifetimes to beat out aging with the use of cell-regenerative technology through the use of nano-machines, making us virtually immortal. It might also be possible at some point within the next 100 or 200 years to instantaneously teleport people from place to place and, this is important, doing so safely and efficiently. I want to be here for those things, dammit!
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