It's funny that Bruce Sterling described a similar kind of schism in one of his Long Now Talks ("The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole"), and said that o

It's funny that Bruce Sterling described a similar kind of schism in one of his Long Now Talks ("The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole"), and said that one of the best ways to derail meaningful progress towards such a technological singularity would be to split the world into two warring, cultural cliques. https://longnow.org/seminars/02004/jun/11/the-singularity-your-future-as-a-black-hole/ https://longnow.org/seminars/02004/jun/11/the-singularity-yo... Also, hilariously, the other way to derail such progress would be to commercialize it. Runaway self-improvement for its own sake, after all, doesn't have an intrinsic business model.