I assume that I’m “the relevant actor”, though I could pass everything on to kids/others if old age becomes a problem. Start a cult of secret-future-knowledge with a mission of saving the world, if it’s really going to take a long time.
Ideally, after running a bunch of experiments, me or my heirs would be sitting around with a bunch of knowledge about how new ideas/technologies do or don’t get rapidly adopted, and what effects they have on society. We’d also have a pile of of future-knowledge about technologies. (Pile of new technical knowledge) + (knowledge of how introduction of technical knowledge steers society) = (ability to steer society), assuming that dissemination of technical knowledge is capable of steering society at all.
I assume that I’m “the relevant actor”, though I could pass everything on to kids/others if old age becomes a problem. Start a cult of secret-future-knowledge with a mission of saving the world, if it’s really going to take a long time.
Ideally, after running a bunch of experiments, me or my heirs would be sitting around with a bunch of knowledge about how new ideas/technologies do or don’t get rapidly adopted, and what effects they have on society. We’d also have a pile of of future-knowledge about technologies. (Pile of new technical knowledge) + (knowledge of how introduction of technical knowledge steers society) = (ability to steer society), assuming that dissemination of technical knowledge is capable of steering society at all.