Yes, Material & Intellectual Progress. What About Political & Economic Progress?

Doc Huston
1 min readMar 6, 2017

Trends and facts cited make your case. What is omitted is equally important.

  • Medieval, heavily gamed political systems
  • Rising economic inequality and unresponsive political or economic systems
  • Growing surveillance state and contraction of civil liberties
  • Increasingly inexpensive, portable, stealthy WMD

Abundance is great but life in a gilded cage is problematic. Don’t you think?

Where’s the Xprize for improving the political system?

Doc Huston

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Doc Huston
Doc Huston

Written by Doc Huston

Consultant & Speaker on future nexus of technology-economics-politics, PhD Nested System Evolution, MA Alternative Futures, Patent Holder — dochuston1@gmail.com

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