No, I'm saying that "the future" arriving is more a function of political will than it is of technological development. It's a mistake to imagine that we can me

No, I'm saying that "the future" arriving is more a function of political will than it is of technological development. It's a mistake to imagine that we can merely build magic technologies and humanity will benefit; if we don't make the effort to organize to share what we make, "the future" will be a set of circumstances enjoyed by a narrow subset of humanity.