Ever since I was little I had always figured that technology would allow us to do thinks more simply and efficiently, giving people more time and energy to spend on other pursuits. I still believe that's the only real path for a technologically advanced society to take, achieving sustainability as a natural consequence of technological growth, but clearly it's not quite so simple or straight forward for us to get to such a place as a society. We appear to have a natural inclination to petition "higher powers" to solve our problems for us, which leads to the proliferation of mechanical systems designed to administer such expectations, which just snowballs out of control until something breaks.

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What really strikes me about information technology in general is that there appears to be a sizable portion of society which is attempting to use it to create a "digital world" which serves to replicate the familiar world, rather than treating it as the new thing which it is, squandering opportunity while simultaneously exacerbating the flaws inherent to our previous imperfect solutions. I full confidence that we will be capable of learning how to properly implement what we have learned about our world as a consequence, but it will still take significant time and effort. Probably more time and effort than we would like, but there really isn't an alternative to success.