Techvolution: A New Philosophy For Our Modern World

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Conservatives are making the middle class great again. Across the world, these red-blooded patriots give regular people better jobs and honest government. Don't be a socialist; join them and fight for your liberty!

No, wait. The Progressives are the good guys fighting for us all. Their ideology is saving us from climate change, racism, sexism, elitism, and chauvinism while making sure everyone gets their fair share. We must fight fascism to have social progress!

Politics around the world, especially in America, is filled with black-and-white messages like these because Left-wing and Right-wing ideologues keep spreading their one-sided stories throughout society. On cable news, social media, and dinner tables around America, politics is increasingly dominated by a winner-takes-all attitude; no moderation or compromise is allowed.

Many people are sick of this toxicity.

Here's a new philosophy called Techvolution—it's custom-designed to calm our politics via Mixed-Ideological Politics and supercharge our innovation and job market with Bumblebee Economics.

Let's get started.

Inner Flap

In an age of growing political polarization and technological disruption, Techvolution offers a new framework for understanding and navigating the challenges of our time.

This book argues that we must move beyond the outdated Left-Right ideologies that have long dominated our politics and economics. Instead, in the age of ever-expanding technology, we must embrace our identity as a "technological species" - one whose evolution is driven more by the tools and innovations we create than by our biological traits or chosen identities.

Techvolution presents a synthesis of conservative and progressive values, blending the efficiency-focused principles of capitalism with the equity-minded goals of social democracy. Through its core tenets of "Mixed-Ideological Politics" and "Bumblebee Economics," this philosophy shows how we can find common ground by harnessing the power of technology to generate and distribute wealth in a more efficient yet sustainable way.

Drawing insights from evolutionary biology, political philosophy, and the history of technological progress, Techvolution offers a fresh perspective on the persisting questions of human development. How can we structure our institutions and incentives to foster continuous innovation? What is the role of government in shaping technological change? And how can individuals find meaningful niches within an ever-evolving technological ecosystem?

Instead of getting caught up in the zero-sum battles of Left vs. Right, Techvolution empowers readers to become active agents of their own technological evolution. By embracing a mindset of collaborative problem-solving and open-source innovation, this new philosophy says we can build a future of greater prosperity, resilience, and freedom for all.

Thought-provoking and pragmatic, Techvolution provides an essential road map for navigating the complexities of the 21st century. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to transcend the ideological divides of our time and unlock the full potential of human and technological co-evolution.

Endorsements

"I know oppression is wrong. I marched, voted, and protested for social justice all my life. I'm also tired of fighting. I want to find common ground so I can help my grandkids who keep telling me the rising cost of living is their main problem." An ethically-minded American resident

"American values were once celebrated around the world. But America is not the beacon on the hill she once was. We were fighting ourselves to death. Techvolution helped me understand embracing change means we can make the future one of liberty and individual empowerment again." A Proud American

"Global instability, resource wars, societal infighting? I told myself these were a 'you' problem, not a 'me' problem. I planned to ride out whatever problems humanity suffered inside the comfort of my home. The truth is, I was just so turned off by politics. Techvolution showed me how to find compromise by working on economic development that generated and distributed wealth at the same time." A former non-voting American

"I need my employees to be engaged. I need to be inclusive. I need to be profitable. I need to be innovative. I need to lower my budget. I felt like I was flying blind until Techvolution explained where we are going in human evolution. Now I know how to direct my projects, communicate with my people, and make my goals happen." Regional Director, Acme Corp.

"I love technology. Submitting a pull request on an open-source code base makes me smile. However, the open-source ecosystem was often isolated, underfunded, and lacked direction. Techvolution gave us the plot we needed. Now we install a brick of the Internet Age society with every line of code we write." An Open-Source contributor

"Gone are the days of feeling helpless in the face of social injustice, government overreach, and the rising cost of living. Techvolution equipped me with an evolutionary framework to navigate our technology-driven world." An American who wants to pay their bills

Dedication

This book is for the open-source community — for the collaboration mindset you handed down to me while updating Wikipedia, writing free software, and answering endless questions on StackOverflow. You showed a political student what the future could be as you became the protagonists of the Internet Age. Still, I hope this book inspires you to (no offense) stop making JavaScript frameworks and coding unused side projects because you must create the Internet Age economy, build-step by build-step, posthaste.

This book is especially dedicated to the extras on Main Street. When it’s time for you to act, I pray you decide to play the game of evolution and reach for the future that the open-source heroes have built for you.

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"We are really the revolutionaries in the world today—not the kids with long hair and beards who were wrecking the schools a few years ago."

Dr. Gordon Moore, author of Moore's Law, 1973.

Preface

Talk to any political junkie, no matter when, and they'll say there's a big election coming up. They'll tell you, "If the Right-wing triumphs, infrastructure, healthcare, everything will go to shit!"

If you buy it—and most of us have at some point—you glue yourself to Left-wing blogs, radio, and TV. As you fill up on Leftist philosophy, you'll filter human history as a never-ending story of the rich oppressing the poor that was only stopped because of strong government action. With every additional minute you watch the news, you'll walk towards extremism and begin to see any opposition to Leftist demands as fascist Conservatives opposing social justice for their selfish greed.

Or, if the other side sucked you in first, you start spotting communist Progressives and their unholy socialist agenda instead. This drive toward extremism Americans is a road more Americans join every day; so many people are helpless to resist because ideologues tell such a compelling story.

In America today, Republicans are considered Right-wing for aligning with Conservatism and Capitalism, while Democrats are seen as Left-wing for embracing Progressivism and Socialism. All of these philosophies were created centuries ago by people desperate to industrialize their agrarian societies. Starting in the late 1700s, our poor, hungry, and cold ancestors raced to invent steam power, machine tools, and other innovations to mass-produce roads, radios, clothes, factories, hospitals, schools, and so on. Because of its democratic spirit, America tried both Rightist ideas, like Teddy Roosevelt's trust-busting monopolies, and Leftist ideas, like Franklin Roosevelt's fight against economic depressions via a social safety net.

American politics was, thus, always a mixture of left-leaning and right-leaning policies. This adaptable philosophy, while far from perfect in the short term, nonetheless proved attuned to the problems of the American public. It's no surprise that by the early 1970s, the United States had turned itself from an obscure little backwater into the world’s economic powerhouse and won the ultimate race of the Industrial Age.

Today's ideologues portray their side as the righteous protectors of America's industrial wealth (pension plans, medical systems, educational institutions, and so on), with the "other" being a constant threat. Both sides ignore the fact that industrialization was a shared story that was many pages long, and each ideology had its share of successes and failures. But, since they have little idea how to use modern technology to generate new kinds of wealth, today's Left and Right devotees must take all the credit for America's industrialization to keep themselves relevant.

With their industrialization ideologies aging, ideologues resort to more marketing, which is why they tell such good stories on the news, podcasts, and blogs. Once their captivating tales fill your mind, the nuance and complexity of history fade in favor of the excitement of cheering for "the good guys" and hating "the bad guys."

Techvolution can't compete with this chorus of entertainment, and I do not want it to. The passion and enthusiasm of today's ideologies are admirable, but their simplicity is not. Anyone with easy answers to our problems is misleading you. No one has ever built a society facing today's challenges using modern technology. This is the first time Earth has 7+ billion people, advanced robotics, electric cars, AI, and nuclear weapons. How could answers be simple? And how could anyone have all the solutions?

And here's the face-palm movement: today's ideologies were created by people with no exposure to the technologically-sophisticated reality that we live in. Their founding thinkers, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Edmund Burke, and John Stuart Mill, never used a toilet, never sat in a car, never disinfected a wound. Each thinker has lessons to teach, of course, but we should build upon them instead of clinging to them as their devout followers do today. Using these old ideologies makes us as hopeless as dinosaurs trying to survive in a world that has outgrown them. We are clinging to outdated worldviews that are simply not suited to the modern era.

So no, Techvolution avoids easy answers because there are none for anyone who wants to offer practical solutions to real-life problems. Instead, Techvolution gives you the power to ask better questions. So you, wherever you are, be it writing by-laws in a small town, running a division of a large company, or trying to find a new career, can find better answers to the problems our society is facing right now.

That's why this new philosophy doesn't repeat Left-wing and Right-wing industrialization politics, metrics, and policies. Rather, Techvolution measures real-life problems by assessing how prosperous the middle class is, the rate of mortgage payoff, the cost of insurance, the amount of time spent in traffic. We can improve real-life metrics when our society turns from extremism and instead learns the fundamental laws governing life's evolution on Earth. Since we evolve with technology, we must learn how to harness technological evolution. Human technology co-evolution needed a new name, hence the new word "Techvolution."

The two tenets of this new philosophy are Mixed-Ideological Politics and Bumblebee Economics. Mixed-Ideological Politics is predicated on the recognition that as technological beings someone's politics should promote the tools they use to make a living. The Industrial Age had powerful but still primitive technology. Production lines and offices needed humans to power their operations. It took years for a typist to master the typewriter, as it took years for a welder to master the welding machine. People often had jobs for life out of necessity because learning a new trade was practically impossible. As they could only use a few tools to make a living, the Industrial Age people had a fixed ideology. Basically, workers fought for a greater share of production profits (Leftist ideology), while owners and managers of the factories and offices voted to defend their capital to collect and invest more of it for themselves (Rightist ideology).

Modern tools are increasingly cheap, easy to master, and powerful. It's easier for an individual person to mix and match modern tools to the needs of their unique life. Mixed-Ideological Politics tells people to go for it and use whatever tools that will improve your bottom line. Out of necessity, then, anyone learning various new tools should also have mixed ideologies; you might be a worker of one technology and an owner of another several times in your life, perhaps even at the same time.

Think of technology like Shopify to run your own store, YouTube to make your own content, 3D printing to make your own stuff, a windmill to power your house, and so on. As technology keeps advancing there are so many ways for you to carve out a prosperous niche for yourself. Not every niche needs to be super-unique, but with Mixed-Ideological Politics, each person has the freedom of mind to avoid watching politics on TV and instead practice politics by searching for the best tools and allies you need to make your life as prosperous and secure as possible.

Bumblebee Economics provides the technological framework to enable collaboration between individuals practicing Mixed-Ideological Politics. Because modern tools are so much easier to pick up, they should be able to work together with little delay. For example, when you hire a new therapist, your medical records shouldn't be scattered around various healthcare providers as they are today. Your records are about you, and so you should have full control and access to them to share with whomever you need to.

Think of how creatures such as bees, flowers, and worms work together to fertilize the dirt that grows the plant that feeds the animals. This isn't by accident. Nature empowers individual lifeforms to control their own adaptations so they can easily collaborate while being self-interested. Individual lifeforms working together is the best way to generate a wealth of life. Bumblebee Economics is the recreation of biological ecosystems within our technological world. By encouraging people to find allies and tools to improve their bottom line in as many niches as possible, Techvolution’s economic system generates new wealth by making human mass-collaboration easy.

This amazing world of Mixed-Ideological Politics and Bumblebee Economics is here in theory but not out in the world yet. We must build it.

That's why Techvolution cannot give you easy answers. Like bees, flowers, and all the other creatures in this world, only you know the position you are in and the pains you feel. This new philosophy thus empowers you to ask better questions of your society so you can discover lasting solutions to the problems of your unique life. Techvolution can't be entertainment because it stops you from being a spectator and turns you into an active agent who lowers the cost of middle-class living by creating an economy that generates and distributes wealth for everyone who works for it.

While this book won't be as entertaining as Left vs Right broadcasts and flame-fests, I'll do my best to make this new philosophy fun and inspiring because the future should be.

Foreword

My oldest child enrolled in a beginner Spanish class. It wasn't long before the teacher suspected (correctly) that Spanish was his mother tongue. To test him, Ms. Milgram showed words of colors typed in a different color, so "red" was shown in blue ink, for example. With only a half-second to see each slide, my son had to say the color each word was written in.

It's nearly impossible to cheat the test. Even if you're pretending ignorance, your mind reads the word "red" before seeing it's typed in blue ink. My kid was soon caught and had to take the advanced Spanish class. I laughed when he told me the story. I advised him to take a lesson from it.

No lifeform can ever stop evolving; it's a mindset only for the doomed.

This is the reason I still read this book today in 2083. I never want to go back to the days pre-Techvolution when we feared evolution. Here's why no one should.

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I sometimes forget Techvolution was as transformative as it was.

Was humanity ever so hamstrung?

Did ideology control economics the same way religion once did politics? Were people loyal to their personalities instead of their achievements? Why did the world's regions have such huge inequalities? Why were there so many currencies instead of using God's currency? Would teachers demand their students not to use the latest technology because teachers wanted safe jobs for life teaching ancient technology?

What's even more confusing is trying to understand how regular people responded to their evolution being held back. They would watch ideological stories on a screen and call that politics. They would want one career for life and, therefore, one ideology for life, regardless of changes in technology, demographics, and environment. How could parents raise their kids in suburban isolation — showering them with generic mass-produced items instead of nurturing their evolutionary drive to use their unique gifts, physique, and passions to evolve solutions to their unique problems?

The hard truth is yes, we used to live this way. I must remember that. It's easy to forget that humanity once fought against our evolutionary imperatives instead of confronting our natural enemy.

Our true enemy is Entropy, the catchall term for the continuous change of our environment through ice storms, hurricanes, solar radiation, and everything else making Life on Earth a constant work in progress. For billions of years, every organism has rushed to stay ahead of the nasty, brutish, and short-life Entropy can cause. Did humanity think we must not be vigilant?

Of course, we must! Like any animal, Entropy is always on our tail. We live on the game board of life. We feel the agony of pain as a blessed warning to avoid chutes and cherish ladders as we strive to outrun Entropy's wrath.

Yet, we are not solely biological creatures. Did the caveman start a fire with lasers from his eyes? Did explorers map the world by flying across oceans? No, we are not superheroes. Our race, sex, and genetics do not keep us warm or grow our food.

So, what does it mean to be human in the age of advancing technology? It means realizing that we are increasingly not just biological beings but vessels for technological evolution - complex systems that can adapt, learn, and grow in ways that biology alone cannot. And, it is fostering human diversity of sizes, personalities, and abilities that allows us to operate entire technological ecosystems.

That's how we finally learned how to outrun Entropy: promoting the free and widespread creation, adoption, and replacement of technologies on the technological tree of life. Technological evolution has the exact requirements as the evolution powering everything from slime molds to blue whales. We need unfettered innovation to create a variety of new technological adaptions. Whichever adaptions most efficiently harness resources captures a niche and is rewarded with a job in life's holy war against Entropy.

That's why our most important identity is the tools we use. Our tools, not our biology, enable us to find a niche and earn a living. Importantly, unlike biological animals, we can replace our tools and continue to evolve into new and improved technological species throughout our lifetime. Inventors are thus our heroes, the people who help our technological evolution are our allies, and those who oppose our technological self-improvement are our, and evolution's, antagonists.

Seeing ourselves as biological beings had us chasing shadows.

When we primarily identified with race, gender, or ethnicity, it allowed those with control over an important technology, from queens to supervisors, to become gatekeepers and stop our evolution. Worse still was the manner in which biological identities gave antagonists the ammunition they needed to spin ideological stories that (supposedly) justified why their racial, gender, or noble "superiority" put them above participating in the evolutionary race as equals.

Each time humanity succeeded in crushing one of these fictions, another would pop up to take its place. Like a hydra, racism, sexism, and elitism would continue to mutate and resurrect because biological identities were masks of identity distracting humanity from the technological identities Nature wanted us to have. Our grave misunderstanding let the antagonists dictate our futures.

We were born free, but everywhere, our technological self-evolution was chained.

Yet, despite their talented storytelling, antagonists always failed. They proved that human survival on this lifeboat called Earth is not based on our biology. Any group that ever claimed biological superiority fell in the face of technological progress.

That progress was not a smooth ride. Antagonism let Entropy catch up with us, and its ensuing pain caused layoffs, unemployment, homelessness, recessions, civil wars, depressions, and revolutions. So, what was really behind our struggles? Was it bad government policies or unfair circumstances? Those could be big problems, for sure. But, the agonizing suffering we experienced was ultimately because of thwarted evolution, i.e., we didn't or were prevented from adopting innovations fast enough to outrun Entropy.

Nature made us pay for our sins. Every biology student knows that evolution's selection of the best adaptions requires a daily and hour scrutinizing, throughout the world, of every adaption, even the slightest. That's why today, we protect every individual's technological evolution as a sacred right and teach it as an absolute obligation.

Harnessing technological evolution seems simple to us today, but getting here took a big change. Galileo taught us science over mythology, Jefferson freedom over servitude, Darwin evolution over creationism; this book teaches us technological evolution over ideology. With it, we learned the pathway to healthy economics is Bumblebee Economics via democratized, interoperable, and open-source technological products that let everyone find their niche. We judge our economic success by measuring the health of our technological ecosystem's checks and balances as biologists do with the natural world. To power this new economy, everyone needs to mix tools to solve their problems. Thus, everyone needs a healthy mixture of political beliefs to protect and promote their livelihoods.

Embracing Techvolution transformed the era of mass production of only generic products into the era of mass collaboration, where people can strive to find their niche using mass-produced products or customized tools. This change connected technological evolution with the biological pain that unequivocally tells all lifeforms what problems need to be solved. Thereby, we unlocked the super-productivity of Internet Age technology like 3D printers, crypto-currency, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.

I am not naive. Human Nature will never be perfect. Greed, laziness, selfishness, and other human flaws are still among our problems today. But now we know antagonism is not a race, gender, or creed. It's a danger within us all because gatekeeping by way of bullying, lawsuits, and violence comes too naturally when we have authority over others, from teachers to coaches, executives to princes. We fight against our inclination for antagonism via the continued universal experience of real-life troubles and the reliance on others to improve our daily lives.

Techvolution is like learning a language. Once you understand this way of thinking, you automatically realize creating and distributing better tools is what truly secures everyone's freedom and prosperity. This new philosophy also teaches us that gatekeeping technology is essentially worshipping at the altar of a false god that, instead of securing one's future, it destroys the checks and balances required within ecosystems, making antagonism a tragic tale that leads to its own inevitable destruction.

Now, I must thank those who took the first leap. Decades ago, in the 2020s and 2030s, many brave parents unplugged themselves from fixed-ideological politics and ventured into the frontier to start a new society. Because of them, we study, understand, and promote our technological evolution's new modes and orders. As a result, today's parents know the functional truth; every kid has an important goal to achieve and a fun story to live because, like in the natural world, there's always a niche to fill inside our ever-evolving technological ecosystem that's using Nature's currency to harness energy more efficiently every day.

Now, we use technology to make each region capable of sustaining happy human life. Our kids no longer die in ideological wars. They don't suffer economic depressions, and very rarely do they struggle with psychological afflictions.

Instead, they receive the customized education and tools they need to roll their own dice on the chessboard that is life. They work with other frontline workers under minimal, open, and accountable leadership, using any tool they need. Nature's currency interconnects them inside a technological ecosystem filled with open-source and interoperable tools that select new adaptations so quickly it's edging us closer to perpetual profit while evolving life closer to our glorious future among the stars.

Along with their teachers and leaders, I helped my kids find their technological niche. And now I get to watch them achieve their very best. I advise them to re-read this book often to be sure their kids will continue evolving mankind to our highest potential.

A happy and loving mother circa 2083

P.S. I shudder to think of our fate if we had continued to interpret our reality using ideologies that blamed each other for their shared inability to drop old ways of living and work hard to give our kids a happy life.

Chapter 1 - Techvolution in Your Life

Learning Techvolution will be an adventure. This is not only because of the things to learn but also because of the knowledge you must unlearn - such as the identities the Left and Right give themselves, their reverence for industrialization economic statistics, and their excellent storytelling.

One way for me to tip your interest toward an education in Techvolution is by asking, do you think you’re going to make it? I mean, as humanity suffers the inevitable effects of resisting evolution while trying to use Industrial Age ideologies past their life expectancy, do you think you’ll make it?

Of course, I don't mean you and your family are in danger.

Unless you live in Ukraine, Russia, Palestine, Israel, Sudan, Taiwan, Korea, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, or any of the other flashpoints at different levels of illumination. Those troubles won't spread. Once you choose a Left or Right ideology, you'll have someone to blame, and ranting, protesting, and rioting against another group of people will keep you safe.

Perhaps I'm being too coy. It's hard to imagine being stuck in a warzone until you are. So, let's ask the question differently. Imagine a single mother working two low-wage jobs to pay rent, with little time for her kids. Or a small-business owner struggling to compete against the paperwork and laws. These stories are increasingly common as the economy frays. In its heyday, the Industrial Age social contract was "The American Dream" would bring a good life to everyone, but today, the dream is a memory we struggle to blame someone when it isn't coming true anymore.

As a result, American politics is a blame fest, which could very well get much more dangerous. More civil unrest, more government gridlock, more assassination attempts. Hopefully not, but would anyone be surprised at this point if it did?

The first part of your Techvolution education is realizing people are increasingly fighting around the world for a logical reason. Our way of life was born in the Industrial Age and spread around the world during globalization. The benefits of industrialization are obvious. Going from hand tools to power tools and artisan-made items to mass-produced products speeds up the time needed to construct buildings, grow food, print books, and a million more things.

But today, the automobile that once sped up transportation is often sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Tasty junk food that was once an enticing treat is now a daily food that causes mass health problems. The suburban house that once held many friends and Tupperware parties is increasingly so big and expensive that the youth struggle to start a family.

The simmering conflicts around our planet appear to be over ideology and history, but once you learn Techvolution, you'll understand the once innovative Industrial Age products are aging, and therefore, the people who use those products are feeling the pains of old age, too. Today, we're so behind the evolutionary times that Entropy is catching up to us like it does for any other bygone creature. Instead of embracing failure and evolving a more efficient way of life, people are huddling into protective groups, declaring their leaders to be near messiahs, all while dehumanizing "the other" as they fight for what's left of the Industrial Age's wealth like lions, hyenas, and crocodiles fighting over a dwindling carcass.

There’s still enough wealth to fight over. The Industrial Age created a bounty for humanity. The food supply, political stability, and individual freedom all grew by leaps and bounds for several generations. There's a reason why the human population exploded from one billion in 1800 to six billion in 2000 and why historians call the period after World War II ended in 1945 "the long peace."

Digital technology was supposed to make the long peace last forever. In 1969, several American universities invented the ARPAnet. This tiny network was the first internet, where its backbone technology, called "packet switching," was implemented. The same year, an inventor named Douglas Engelbart put on his "Mother of All Demos," where he showed a civilization used to typewriters and telegraphs, the first personal computer. Among the attendees of that fateful demonstration were the people who made the Apple Macintosh computer and iPhone. After the internet and personal computers came to life in 1969, human civilization did what we've done many times before: we invented a new age. This time, it was the Internet Age.

But we don't live in it yet.

You might be thinking we already do. Most people have an iPhone in their pocket. Doesn't the "i" stand for the internet?

Being in an Age doesn't mean being from the Age. Holding an iron hammer doesn't mean you are from the Iron Age. For one, you likely have no idea how to forge anything out of iron. Most importantly, though, you don't need the hammer to make a living. You could use a power tool, as most people would today, instead of hammering nails all day.

Likewise, most people right now can not use modern technology to earn a living. Can you program an app? Understand how internet packets work? Make a 3D-printed part? The modern technology you use is likely a consumer product. A toy to spend time with but rarely depend on. That's why the default choice for most of our institutions today is still a telephone number, not a WhatsApp chat. Politicians debate on broadcast television, with its limited time slots and commercial breaks, instead of talking on YouTube for as long as they need to (Abraham Lincoln debated seven times, for three hours, in his historical 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debates). Industrial Age tools are still the default tools most of the time because people know how to use them. We are still in that age, even if it feels like we're going in circles.

Because we haven't upgraded Industrial Age ideologies, we used the advent of digital technology to turn the era of mass production into the era of hyper-production. Advancing robotics, computer design, telecommunications, and other modern technologies were used to supercharge the production of generic products to make our lifestyles bigger and more uniform. The American citizen was pressured to become a constant consumer and buy all this stuff without regard for their own bottom line.

Overbuying generic products doesn't factor in each person's individual circumstances. There's a good reason Life creates so many kinds of lifeforms. It's because situations are so different from place to place that many different adaptations are needed for each individual to harvest enough resources to stay alive. That's why average Americans, filled with mass-produced products, are working hard and not getting anywhere. As a result, we've been eating Industrial Age bounty to stay alive and it's mostly gone. Here is a list of our problems today. Take your time flipping through them.

Note: assume there are graphs displaying growing real-world problems, like rising inflation, government debt, personal debate, climate change, political polarization, health trends, and more. I have the graphs but didn't want to put them here yet. Not surprisingly, most of these problems started in the 1970s when digital technology was invented and have kept getting worse since.

Hopefully, by now, you realize the problems we feel today mean Entropy has caught up with us as it does for any creature who resists evolving new ways of life. But our problems are not things to fight about in blame fests television shows. Instead, our pains are opportunities for each of us to use modern technology to venture out, find a niche, and earn a living.

To find your niche, you need Mixed-Ideological Politics to partner with any person and use any tool to improve your bottom line, and Bumblebee Economics because it makes it easier for people and tools to collaborate directly and quickly. Only then can you burst out in front of Entropy on the gameboard of Life. But before we do that, you must buy into the Techvolution philosophy: we are biological creatures who must evolve with technology to prosper.

Keep in mind that while this new philosophy embraces change, it doesn't disregard past ideologies; in fact, it builds on them.

Since we want to stand on the shoulders of giants, you do need to know a little about where today's ideologies come from. Some ideologies say humanity should embrace modesty and search for a simple life. Others say we should embrace our heritage as our primary goal. Conservatives and Progressives disagree. Both sides think a "wealth" of products and services is the best way to improve human life. They do disagree on how best to grow economic wealth. Conservatives want to concentrate wealth in order to grow it more efficiently, and Progressives want to distribute wealth to get more people to contribute. The two wings are part of the same bird because they only disagree on the best way to achieve their common goal of mass-producing a lot of stuff for people to have.

Techvoltion is the synthesis of Left-wing and Right-wing because it understands how modern technology both creates and distributes wealth at the same time. And digital technology is easy to customize or mass-produce as needed. Linux, MediaWiki, and Python are but some examples. The loudness of politics today makes this truth too simple to see and too inconvenient for many people to acknowledge, so I can't just explain why modern technology can improve our real lives by leaps and bounds. Sadly, the slick ideological "Left vs. Right" storytelling gives new technology a "side." For example, power windmills are somehow "Liberal," although windmills have been around since at least Roman times.

Right now, you are standing at the base of the ladder of evolution and are in the Industrial Age. We're dying. At the top is the Internet Age. It's ready for you to go there and populate it with Mixed-Ideological Politics and Bumblebee Economics. But it's hard to talk about technological evolution when people are so dug into their ideological storytelling. Protesting, arguing, and fighting is natural when two extremes face off over limited resources. Given how much we're fighting over resources instead of evolving new solutions, it's not an exaggeration to ask, "Are you going to make it?"

But it might be hard to believe that you're in danger. So, here's a practical way to see why traditional believing in single Left or Right ideology is dangerous and why we need Techvolution to harness the power of new technology to work together and build an Internet Age society.

Picture driving your car. You're going to work, to the store, maybe you're on a country road under a blue sky with a slice of peach pie waiting for you at a farm stand somewhere in the idyllic countryside.

Wherever you are, you're driving on the road, all peaceful and happy as you should be, and then you hear screeching tires and honking horns.

You've been in a horrendous crash.

Moments later, you awaken in a new reality. You have no clue what happened. Your airbags definitely deployed; you know that because the white bags are all around you. You look around in a haze. Farm fresh peaches are everywhere; what a waste is your first conscious thought. What is your next? What should happen next after a car crash?

Remember this moment. It's not a talking point on a television show. It's not a zinger in a debate. It's not a hypothetical conflict that could kill you. Every day, many thousands of people get into a terrible car crash. Injuries and death are all too common. Car crashes have been happening for over 100 years. They contribute to greenhouse gases that the Left hates and wasted money that the Right hates.

Why is it that we still don't know how to handle a car crash and mitigate the huge problems car crashes cause us? This fact holds true despite Left and Right being in power inside government and business?

We'll return to this moment as we learn more about Techvolution. Embracing this new philosophy will improve your everyday life tremendously. It might even save it, too.

What Evolution Is

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