it would be nice to think that all this technologization is taking us someplace. Unfortunately,
we're pretty much in the same place. Who was it who said that society never advances, every inch it gains from one side it loses from the other.
Today's vast technology machine is nothing more than a replica of the medieval ages, with pipelines directing flow of material into the 20% with the established salaried-man-machine -combine forcing effort in the opposite direction. The Daimyos and the Nobility used swordsmen to do this work. Today the Fed directs flow of credit and salaried designers create clothes and toys and meals that one MUST acquire or lose social face.