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There Will Be A Better Technological Tomorrow. Why?
We are in a time of significant technological change in our world. In a way, we’ve always been in times of change as a result of the technologies we have imaged into being. This may be a time of the most significant change as a result of technology in our history. It is not about Artificial Intelligence (AI) as one might think. AI plays a part, but only a part. And perhaps a much smaller part than we might think.
What’s different this time is the number of revolutionary technologies entering society over several decades, which in the arch of time, is link the blink of a Bluetooth winking light on a device.
Revolutionary technologies typically came along one at a time and we had time between them to sort things out. Over decades and sometimes millennia, the technologies would change us, then we would change them. We had time and space.
Todays revolutionary technologies have changed our understanding of time. As we have grown in population and moved to take up more space, so has the meaning of space changed. Time and space have collapsed. These two factors, along with the number of revolutionary technologies entering our sociocultural systems at the same time, are presenting us with some interesting challenges.
