What a presumptive amount of time. Two full generations from now, we'll likely undergo such transformative economic upheavals, that the very idea of countries

What a presumptive amount of time. Two full generations from now, we'll likely undergo such transformative economic upheavals, that the very idea of countries themselves may seem quaint. Before long, powerful people will likely apply strong AI, and biotechnology, to modify economies and life spans. Terrestrial societies with ballistic weapons actuated by oxidizing propellants may yet seem as obstinate as some castle-dwelling monarchy bristling with muskets. All this wire tapping and MITM vulnerability exploiting payload delivering stupidity, will seem like a treadmill to nowhere before long, and something's going to pop. Software that sucks this much can't eat the world forever. The world has cooler things to get eaten by. Maybe someone useful will finally build that space elevator, and someone else will connect the globe with hyper loops and we'll start thinking in terms of orbital colonies and dyson spheres, instead of hierachies of brainwashed sycophants and incentivizing behavior modification with B.F. skinner monopoly money and bitcoin baseball cards. Barrel bombs are fucking stupid and everybody knows it.