It is becoming increasingly obvious (to some people such as myself) that the law, government, and other social institutions are obsolescent and actually restricting progress, which is always made through technology.
It won't be too many decades before all human activity is irrelevant. (I make the distinction between humans and the ultra-intelligent life forms that we will shortly invent because I think that they are fundamentally different things.)
Meh. There were 30 million e-mails being sent every month by the early 1970's (four decades ago). Heck, technology has almost not advanced at all in this decade, even in the computer sector (I don't consider Facebook, etc, to be advancements in technology in the relevant sense).
It won't be too many decades before all human activity is irrelevant. (I make the distinction between humans and the ultra-intelligent life forms that we will shortly invent because I think that they are fundamentally different things.)