Ahmed wrote:Yes, this supposes a progressive renouncement of economism in favor of hypertechnicism, but the supporters of this ideology are likely to be taken by surprise by the collapse of the first before being able to establish the second ...
What is the economy in the deepest sense, if it is only an exchange of energy / information?
Even in a world driven by algorithms and by non-biological living entities the notion of economy will always be present.
From a historical point of view, the economy, whatever its forms consist in exchanging raw materials, services etc ... in order to guarantee the maintenance in operation of a structure.
However, this notion will always apply, and more than twice that in a hyper-technological world hungry for energy.
It is therefore important to observe the evolution of the economy towards its new forms, the UK - among others - could endorse such a transformation.
I often insist that capitalism, socialism, communism, and other liberalism do not exist objectively, and are in reality only the forms that economism * takes over time.
the UK would facilitate the pursuit of the concentration of powers in a small nucleus of people who would manage to free themselves completely from the rest of humanity and thus deploy an artificial universe by a contraction of technical means (a sort of "big crunch" technico -scientific), which would no longer be oriented towards mass production, but towards transhumanist-type objectives.
In fact, the automation of the means of production should allow the emergence of a globalized hyper-class (to use the term
J. Attali) which could reach a level of development never seen before.
And indeed, if we look at history it appears that the increase in the dissipation of energy from societies has always allowed an explosion of means, all the more so among the ruling classes. So there is no reason why it should not stop.
The only thing equal in the world being death, one can logically imagine that research (on the way to succeed) on the decline of death beyond the biological possibility of our species constitutes a new selective advantage for the powerful.
* Economism (and are technologically inclined material) seems to me the term, failing to find better, the most adequate.
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.