content: You bring up an interesting point that's been on my mind lately. When I picture civilizations of the future, technological advancement always plays a huge, inextricable role in the paradigms and infrastructures that shape those societies. In many ways technology's provided mankind with the means to introduce multiple layers of abstraction and convenience between people and basic survival, giving them the time and physical health to pursue other activities, but also diminishing their basic survival skills because they never needed to learn them in the first place.  So while on one hand those layers of abstraction have made it so that people have more free time to pursue other subjects and activities, on the other hand the more layers of abstraction a society begins to develop the more fucked they are if that technology fails because its citizens will be incompetent without their machines. So what does that say about a future that's heavily influenced by technology? That it's necessarily going to involve a population that would be fucked if shit hit the fan and they couldn't rely on that technology anymore? I see the direction the world's going now and it seems inevitable that we're going to continue mindlessly piling on the layers of abstraction without any plan or vision behind it, and that eventually some major event (or combination of them) is going to fuck us over because we were too short-sighted to prepare for it.