Tomorrow's World

 I envision a world in the near future - a world without nations, bound only by the commonality of ideas.
I believe that the digital age of information - where any concept can  be learned by anyone in a matter of minutes - could be the final  tipping point, the last major hurdle to overcome until we can achieve  the automated Utopia that scientists and scribes have been predicting  for hundreds of years. 

 And new technologies like Steemit will help us to achieve this next step in our evolution! 

 I envision a world with a 100% unemployment rate, but also a 0% poverty  rate. A pure and basic form of non-coercive capitalism, operated by free  men and women, where the hard work of the individual is rewarded  according to it's value, rather than arbitrary metrics such as duration  or seniority. 

 The digital tribes of the future will settle disputes without weapons, and grow prosperous without slave labor. 

 The basic principles of the Industrial Society that have stood for 300  years will finally crumble and give way to society where the problems of  employment and manpower are solved with technology, and the humans who  remain will be left to pursue their genuine strengths and passions. 

 I believe the Governments of the future could be disbanded and fade into  distant memory, no longer needed or wanted for the protection of  well-informed and well-equipped communities. Whether or not that  happens, I am certain that the corporations of the future will be  challenged by increasingly educated individuals and unregulated  crowdfunding groups, whose buying power and economies of scale will  eventually equal or eclipse that of the most powerful companies. 

 Some people refer to this impending age as the Post-Modern or Information society. 

In an odd way, however I see it as a parallel to ancient times. 

We will be a world of Hunters and Gatherers, answering to no-one other than the tribe we choose. 

 Instead of slaying paleolithic creatures for food, we will hunt and  gather information for it's value, and share it freely within our  tribes. 

 This all may sound like optimistic gibberish. 

But the fact remains that technology is changing the world faster than any of us can predict. 

From the development of Graphene, to Blockchain technology, to the  seemingly overnight success of Augmented Reality video games - human  knowledge and development is expanding at an exponential rate, and I'm  thrilled that we can be a small part of it! 

Keep on Steeming! :)