Quote Originally Posted by Stoner Shadow Wolf
is being "advanced" a matter of technology, or is it a matter of life quality?


perhaps both?



If we had 1000fold better technology NOW, we would almost surely be slaves, all of us.

if we had NO technology now (living like it was 1000 BC) we'd all be free, and have to WORK for a living, EVERY day, ceaselessly.

i think *this* is the middle ground.
I don't see any sense or logic to your reasoning beyond the opening statement which had me hopeful the rest of your post would be brilliant. Not that it is dumb by any means, I just don't see how you come up with that. If we had "1000fold" better technology, or put another way had technology 1000 years more advanced, why would we all be slaves? I say the technology would be our slave and we would all be free, let the machines and androids and the like do all the mindless monotonous manual labor while we all sit on the beach somewhere sipping a margarita and toking on a joint while collecting a fat check for it! Our only role would be to guide and manage the technology and maintain/repair it, some of that also could be done for us. We could be free to go hiking or swimming or skiing every day instead of report every day to a job we hate and pay the DEA's paychecks in the process. I see great hope for a better world.