Right now, technology needs to take that next step, and we need to move out of the Industrial revolution, to a more full sustained technological revolution. The factory machine is fighting this attempted move tooth and nail, while still embracing technology. People are still maintaining the factory mindset while trying to embrace technology. And Government does not want change no matter how much the individual politician screams it from their bloody pulpits, they do not want change.
We, I personally feel, are getting closer to the real "Technological Revolution", than we have been before. It how ever is being fought tooth and nail by society and government. We have 3D printers. They can do some pretty amazing things. We have the ability to lab produce healthy meat/protein. We have the ability to hydroponically grow vertical gardens and feed thousands of people. Just think when #D printers can be made that just use a shovel full of sand to make a glass plate, then the minerals in the sand are used to make resistors, diode, and capacitors, what can be done. No more chopping forest down for cattle farms, no more chopping forest down for farms, no more deep earth or open pit mines for minerals, Yes Technology can and does make a real "change", but society, and governments, resist. The revolution though is on the way, and Like the Borg say - - "Resistance is Futile".
Yeha, 3D printers are awesome. They can print a house in a day I think. Once the tech gets more affordable we can print so much without buying it from manufacturers. Yes, no more murder of innocent animals who did us no harm, grow the meat if you can't handle a healthy plant only way of eating ;) Technology is what is allowing us to evolve towards more moral and free ways of living indeed ;)