I get the hype. It IS amazing and we shouldn't forget that. I too am sometimes swallowed in the euphoria of what we have created and what we will create, the po

I get the hype. It IS amazing and we shouldn't forget that. I too am sometimes swallowed in the euphoria of what we have created and what we will create, the possibilities open to us, and those others just around the corner. And I mean it when I say I don't mean to be a spoil-sport, but as you say yourself, it's not all good.More specifically, the good and the bad are not evenly distributed. Where the economy gives with one hand it takes with the other. When a labour saving technology is introduced to reduce prices, and increase ease of access, to the consumer, somebody becomes unemployed, or is forced into situation of job insecurity. Without confronting hard questions about the distribution of value generated by new technologies this tech-euphoria is a purely self indulgent act. In an age where some of us have access to every book ever written on our phone, people lack access to a decent education. While some of us can order a 'lyft' in minutes to get to work, others struggle to pay the bus fare for the 2 hour commute for their minimum wage job. While airbnb allows some of us to travel the world meeting interesting people with more ease than ever before, thousands are homeless on the streets of San Francisco. While some order home cooked meals to their door, others starve. I say this not to attack the euphoria. We ARE living in the future. We ARE creating the future. But the future, as the past, is composed of great contradictions. The euphoria we feel for that which is possible must confront a great anger at the grim reality of increasing inequality. That we have the technology required for the whole human race to live in health, dignity, and security is nothing new. Since the end of the 19th century people have been celebrating the human races' liberation from toil, and its access to the fruits of our collective labour. (My personal favourite example is Kropotkin's "conquest of bread", http://libcom.org/library/the-conquest-of-bread-peter-kropotkin http://libcom.org/library/the-conquest-of-bread-peter-kropot..., published in 1906) The question which hangs is still that of distribution. How do we evenly distribute both the labour required and the spoils of that labour such that nobody goes without? Whenever we think "damn, I got it so good", we should also be thinking "why do some still have it so bad?", or "how can society be organised in such a way that we can all benefit from this?" Without this critical response to the great technological developments of our age we run the risk of losing our selves in a "filter-bubble" of those who share our privilege, and with that loose sight of the full potential of the technologies we use and create.