Technology Moves Exponentially, But the Human Mind Moves Linearly

It is the result, even the basis, of evolution. Every changed thing or new thing, or idea, must prove it's value. That takes time.

You are asking for revolution. Evolution goes forward from the present, it does not go back and start again.

Rational use of resources is problematic, as is the concept of human rights. Human cultures are organisms; once a culture assumes an ideological structure it lives and dies according to those structural parameters - what they can and can't bear. The realization of the creative potential of all individual cells would be infeasible as destabilizing influences.

Nature as a material consumer produces redundancy for maintenance purposes. And humans, unnatural though we may seem, are all too natural in our wastefulness. We don't have "efficient decision procedures" because we don't know our own minds, our mirrors of the world. Lost in the funhouse, we like to believe we are rational, but most of our behaviors are appetite and instinct driven.

You mention the example of technological development from the vacuum tube to the transistor. The tools and toys of technology may be rational in their construction, but what drives anyone to go there in the first place? The human spirit? What is that? Put a saddle on that horse and we'll go for a ride.

It's because people suck. Basic necessities should be communally available. But socialism doesn't work because people are greedy and want to be able to be able to work harder than the next guy and get a bigger share. Capitalism doesn't work because people are greedy and want to be able to work so hard they get everyone's share. The human race is defective. We don't do the right things for the right reasons. We do anything for profit. A natural evolution of growing up in an environment where resources were limited. Then technology came along and the potential for surplus was created. What did we do with the surplus? We built war machines and kept fighting each other over resources (and also beliefs). The governments aren't to fault. We are the only ones to blame. If we were different governments would be different. We suffer a form of dissociation and delude ourselves to think it's them but it's really us and until we come to terms with our faulty nature this is how it will be.

Actually socialism doesn't work because not only of peoples greed, but the real underlying problem was that people are generally lazy. It wasn't about working harder for a greater share, but work less than the other guy but expecting more in return for their labors. Only a few people will work harder to get ahead, but if given the opportunity over generations the majority of a society will become lazy expecting rewards for less and less labor. Eventually the majority of the population does not want to work but expects free food, water, medical care, entertainments, etc.. equal to any one else. However, people must work to supply/convey/process the food, water, medical care. So now the people who must work for the benefit of the others have a real expectation that they should receive a greater reward for their extra efforts, so they try to leave the societies where hard work is not rewarded, dwindling the intellectual resources of that society. When there is no motivation, people won't do any thing. Greed is the motivator, and our laziness is a demotivator. Greed is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as it motivates the production of something useful to the society as a whole, it tends to however also reward parasitic greed, which is the bad side, in the existent capitalist finamcial systems and applied socialism, as it is corrupted by man, suffer from this same kind of greed driven parasitism.

Excellent point. As a lye in bed this morning before rising the same additional components did occur to me. We are programmed for efficiency. Less work required = less work done. Unfortunately in a hostile world that requires work to survive, that formula is one for eventual decay. i Humans are very strange creatures.

Concept to reality involves so much pains in perfecting the technology, convincing the change culture to consumers, over coming of the established technologies, trial implementations ,value and image development.

World is fast changing with new options and implementations where convenience and afford ability are major criteria. One more major hurdle is the cost factor and return on investments. High cost implementations takes up higher times and small value items which usually pick up faster.

Convincing and customer beneficial solutions should reach fast.

That calls for smart work outs and overcoming hardships with perseverance.

Another major delay factor is the lack of common concern as well as vast variations in human perceptions.