Many of us are hoping for a deus ex machina. Some magnificent piece of tech (fusion e.g) that keeps giving us time of plenty indefinitely, allowing us to postpo

Many of us are hoping for a deus ex machina. Some magnificent piece of tech (fusion e.g) that keeps giving us time of plenty indefinitely, allowing us to postpone growing up forever. Because that is what we do, when we get it. Instead what we got, was the ability to self-surveil us (cellphone-panopticon), to entertain us without consuming to much resources (games, stream-movies, electronic communication-social sphere) and other funny mechanical limbs. We got the ability to practice birth control and we are currently working to get a hold of the worser angels of our nature, left, right and center. "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes - you get what you need..." My only worry is that whoever is social engineering this "golden path" has not factored in the tendency to get stuck in feudalistic local optima happily ever after. But im toasting them. This all could be so much worser..