I think we're slowly witnessing the next phase of societal evolution right now. No watershed moment yet though. With the likes of Bitcoin and Starlink a pictur

I think we're slowly witnessing the next phase of societal evolution right now. No watershed moment yet though. With the likes of Bitcoin and Starlink a picture is starting to emerge that, while this tech is all still it's infancy, there does seem to exist the remote possibility that one day the tables will turn such that the dynamics that enable totalitarian regimes will be removed or seriously undermined. The industrial revolution changed the previous set of dynamics in that there became a class of independently wealthy, and hence powerful/influential, business owners with a vested interest in how the state operated. It wasn't that they had power and influence over other people, but rather that they recognised that their peers had the same interests they did and they could band together to form a coalition against the rulers of the day and eventually out of that government emerged. Wish I could read the history books from the year 2500!