The most dangerous time is approaching

The danger is that governments will fight against the onrushing new age, and the fight will be joined by those who profit most from the old ways of doing things.  

How long have we got? I can't name a specific year but I doubt we'll have to wait a decade. What's prevented it from happening sooner is that the new age is an amorphous phenomenon. 

Another factor that's allowed the new age to develop unhindered is that its growth hasn't been fueled by political agendas, although such have attached to various facets. But politics, by its nature, is an organized social phenomenon. There is no telling the politics of the people who are making  this new era.

Where are on the political map do you place building a Tiny House within 24 hours by using a 3-D printer?  Or turning 1/3 acre in a residential neighborhood into an agribusiness that can generate at least $75,000 a year? What about peer-to-peer lending? What's its political persuasion?

And consider telemedicine and telework. The Covid pandemic and government lockdowns in response made it possible for big social changes to advance with head-snapping speed. Americans from across the political spectrum are now taking advantage of a new way of working and getting diagnosed for ailments.   

The list goes on of ways the new age is forming without input from politics.  You may trust that governments, as they exist now, won't take this lying down. I don't foresee blood in the streets but in the guise of helpfulness governments will try to regulate the new age out of existence or least hardly distinguishable from the old age.  

Governments have good reason to fear the new age. The Age of the Masses that arose in the last century was actually the age of the masses ruled over by central governments. A true age of the masses is just emerging, and has far less use for centralized governing than earlier ages.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/tiny-home-most-popular-us-states-2020-6#1-california-10

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/europe/covid-19-rise-and-rise-telemedicine

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-yorkers-now-can-return-to-the-office-most-are-staying-away-11592731800

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