As a political philosophy student it really hurts to see all this futurism with the obvious conclusion ignored: political organization matters. It doesn’t matter how much you believe the new technologies will matter, technicians are required for all these things, and technicians are a vulnerable anomaly of the modern world. It’s just as likely technical sciences are lost (diverted for war, domination, profit, etc.) into a new dark age as it is to enter a cornucopian age where technology serves the developmental use for a utopian society.