[Mind's Eye] Re: are we as a global society moving forward or backward?

Well, I thought it was on level ground with genetics, but I took a little humor in your solution too. Just FYI I do consider the genetics serious and it is a great leveler. It just seems our means outgrew our ends in that sense, perhaps we should revise the equation of life to better suit the environment. It wouldn't be the first time we did so in various cultures and there are some very beneficial changes we could make. Some of the advancements also require a shift in focus of commercial and entrepreneurial endeavour and I think we are at the edge of making technological innovations that precipitate those changes.

'Rep-rap'-like nanofacturing is one, medical advancements to grow replacement organs and tissues another, advancements into social administrative structures that implement reliable and scientifically selected meritocratic elections is another (if for no other reason than to promote prime candidates). Any one of these could be used to make our destruction of the Earth more efficient so we can populate even more- yearly body part swaps become the norm, removing more barriers to disease propogation and creating further disparity and slavery to credit backed medical insurance slavery... It is a delicate balance, but we need informed people in power without a doubt and we need an informed populace, but we also need something to inform them of, and a unifying vision/language/undertaking. Everything should be in place, at this point the systems built to sustain humanity are resembling a parasitic dependence, perhaps power structures mostly always were, but this I think is the axial dimension to propel us into an indefinite future even though my rendition is sparse. It should be feasible and will take a lot of hard and dirty work. There's a lot more to say but I'll take a breath-