Well, I often think back the history of mankind, how big dramatic changes there have already been. Let us imagine how the world felt before the invention of maths, writing and reading. Let us imagine a village idiot at those times, preaching a prophecy that there will be time in the future when information can be passed on pieces of birch-bark, on tablets made of stone, on sheets made of grass blades. Probably such prophecy would've been judged as insane and impossible =)

Yet, here we are, communicating by writing, about instantly, to the other side of the globe.

And I remember when I was a kid, "a pocket TV" and "telephone calls with a video view" were sci-fi fantasies we laughed at, yet secretly dreamed of, although those dreams felt completely impossible. How could a TV possibly fit into a pocket-sized device? That was just 30 years ago, and today pocket TVs appear perfectly normal to the kids.

I wish, I do hope, that some 30 years from now on more and more people would feel that the plain simple solution is to prefer co-operation instead of conflict.

Oh, well, but authoritarianism is a big theme. I'll think about it, if I feel like saying anything more elaborate than "personally I dislike it =)"