How America Ends

[Newest Reality]

18. Yes, and a new variable...

What is being called the 4th Industrial Revolution may be rather transparent in the mainstream, but it does add a new variable to how we will deal with just about everything and, it some ways, it is already ubiquitous, which is the way computing and the Internet will go in that paradigm.

I include that as one potential point of reference for optimism, but you have to dig a little and look outside the myopic picture of the manipulative, sensationalist mainstream. I don't think we can imagine, yet, the total impact of this new and rapidly developing digital infrastructure, but it will be significant to the point of potentially changing not only the efficiency of our use of energy and resources, but could even make our ideas of economy and politics obsolete in short order.

A look see into what Germany is doing along these lines is a good place to get a peek of what I mean. America is caught in a tailspin comparatively which is another reason why the Republican ideologies, or "conservatism" may be extremely detrimental to the fate of our country and its people in times of accelerating change.