[Alberta's Child]

If it makes you feel any better, I actually think the human race is going to take a major step backward from a "human progress" standpoint sometime in the not-too-distant future (maybe the next 50-100 years). What is going to happen is that eventually technology becomes so "easy" to master and manipulate that it renders most physical and intellectual property totally worthless.

Call it the Tower of Babel, Part II.

[doc30]

Actually, I see something similar happening now. Technology is becoming simpler and simpler. So much so that you don't need to know very much for it to function. However, to build, design and make new things, that's where the brain power will be needed. You will still need need scientists and engineers to come up with things, but fewer will be needed for any given concept. But with the diversity of technology, more will be required to cover an ever expanding scope of concepts. It may indicate a move to a technocracy, where those with the knowledge of how to come up with new things will be in a separate class, maybe even have more power, than the consumers of the latest technology. It will mean a bigger gap between the skilled and unskilled.