To have a very stable society amid exponentially advancing technology would be very strange: throughout history, seemingly permanent power structures have consistently been disrupted by technological change—and that was before tech started advancing exponentially. Roman emperors, medieval lords, and Gilded Age industrialists all thought they’d created unchangeable systems. They were all wrong.
To have a very stable society amid exponentially advancing technology would be very strange: throughout history, seemingly permanent power structures have consistently been disrupted by technological change—and that was before tech started advancing exponentially. Roman emperors, medieval lords, and Gilded Age industrialists all thought they’d created unchangeable systems. They were all wrong.