People don't colonize space or the ocean already because we have lacked the technology. Working to help your species thrive in inhospitable environments seems r

People don't colonize space or the ocean already because we have lacked the technology. Working to help your species thrive in inhospitable environments seems rather prosocial to me, and squarely a technology problem. If given the option to watch innovation happen because of nation-states in an arms race, or billionaires duking egos, I'd rather the latter. My kids will outlive the ego, and may get to live in a new environ because of it. If we get the scalable collaboration thing down as a species, we wouldn't need billionaires or politicians to move big matters forward. I hope that gets borne out this decade, where we learn to think, code, and act in coordination over shared priorities, beyond the bounds of corporations and nation-states. I look to the open source model for spiritual inspiration there, but it doesn't offer many examples of large projects that can collaborate effectively over multiple generations without central control of a BDFL. Maybe our brains aren't wired that way, that we need a just do need a strongman to get anything done. I sure like to think otherwise. We can get machines to do distributed consensus pretty damn well these days, why can't we upgrade ourselves to do the same?