All new technology threatens previously established norms. Just look at the world we live in, full of wants, unfulfilled needs, inefficient systems, unbalanced distribution of resources all of which could be solved with the technology we have today. Currently known, tried and tested tech isn't properly implemented because it would destroy the established economic system and those reliant on it's imbalance.<br><br>Automated mineral extraction and refinement<br>Automated production<br>Unmanned distribution<br><br>If a Government decided to implement all this with taxpayers money most companies would become obsolete as peoples needs are met, then as wants are met the rest would fall. There would be no one needing to buy products and no one paid to make products, automation is inevitable but to what extent its allowed is anouther thing.,(reply>), But you can make everything free but the want for work would disappear as... Why work if you can have everything for free?,(reply>), But you can make everything free but the want for work would disappear as... Why work if you can have everything for free?,(reply>), You can't take tax payer money when there is no one in the working class other then in maintenance.,(reply>), It isn't so much about every new generation of technology. We have reached a level that would allow these things to become a reality, but our whole global economic system is still based on the "natural" way of doing things. Wasteful, inefficient, survival of the fittest/most cunning/most devious/most ruthless ect ect. <br><br>Like nature out economic system is based on iteration rather than innovation. We change what we already have or know and try to make it work as everything around us changes. patching holes and adding to the existing. This means economic systems (money/resources) are always playing catch up to fit with how society and tech changes things. It's why we see things getting increasingly messed up. Wars, famine, waste, economic crashes, unemployment ect. More goes up, with the rest being spread wider among more.,(reply>), That's what they say about every new generation of technology.