[nmcela]

The American culture based on greed and violence started to rot the western civilization from inside. Massive out-of-control monopolies continued to balloon to unbelivable scales. It was the beginning of the end for both the USA and the Putin dictatorship in Russia.

The pace of innovation kept growing exponentially as predicted. In the 20's humanity has reached a crossroads with technology, and will have to choose the path. Four choices. Two forwards: either a utopian or a dystopian type II civilization. Two backwards: technological degress or extinction.

edit: probably shouldn't say something like this in a mostly American forum. :) but this is essentially the world view in my local information bubble.

[ezekg]

Humans aren’t even a type 1 civilization [0], so a leap forward to a type 2 civilization is unlikely.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

[nmcela]

I'm talking about the general path towards the future. Not about the present moment.