I listed your recommendation in my list of books I need to check out. Seems to be an interesting one. I'm reading the book "The Rise of the Robots" by Martin Ford right now. He is taking the sceptical side of the changes we are going through, seeing robots as a threats, but I see it as something positive, since in the long run we have the opportunity to not have to wrok anymore, since robots will take care of everything, from inventing, creation, manufacturing, serving etc etc.
I personally believe in turning waste into something new again, and I see a lot of new projects and startups based on some new discoveries, like one to use dead jellyfish to make genuine leather for us humans to get leather products. Since eg the Ostsee / Baltic Sea is full of dead jellyfish, no animal has to die for the wishes we have as humans.
I also started a project with some friends to support the circular economy. We use old textile and plastics to create new products. In this particlaur world, I see lots of people having ideas and starte executing on them. This will help to spread the power between individuals, since I believe in this process we will end up with much smaller companies, slowly moving the big power at the few to more smaller companies and individuals. It'll probably take another couple of decades to see major shifts, but we will see them happening, I pretty sure.
thanks for the update!