I hope that new technology will help to free up the individual. I fear that the Internet of things and artificial intelligence will create a vast governmental spy network to rule and regulate every aspect of our future lives. And the realm of virtual reality will give us soma trips while we will never have to leave our houses while using legal maurijuanna to escape reality. Anything on planet Earth can be taxed and regulated and used for the benefit of the Government.
Yes that’s a possibility. But I think in a more general sort of way, top down political control is going to work out the way Prohibition did. Technology will give us 3D printers to build guns, Uber to avoid heavily regulated unionized taxis, new ways to educate our children outside the government-educational complex, new avenues for basic medical care outside heavy regulation. It’s not so much that the government can’t control these things to a degree by force, but that will become increasingly more impractical to do so. Progressivism is kind of fighting the last war.