&quot;Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra&#x27;s profession &quot;scientific,&quot; yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.&quot;---Stanisław Lem<p>Power has always been concentrated in the hands of the few. What we see is that power is being moved from the hands of a <i>human elite</i> to a <i>mob of machines</i>. The loss of work is only a prelude to a loss of purpose.