>>12252260the industrial revolution has lead to an evolution of technology far greater than what human evolution is capable of. Our tendency of our greatest to exploit logic and abstractions leads to a situation where only 1% of the population is equipped to use knowledge and technology to its full extent, and the rest are little but breeding, eating, self-absorbed apes.
It will require a further 1000 years of holy wars, plague, and ignorance to bring the human race up to speed with our current capabilities. Only then will an advanced civilisation be able to progress among all social strata, the so-called "cyberpunk" you have all dreamed of.
