Why do people at the bottom want change more than people at the top?

Are futurologists right, or left-wing people? I mean politically. The main problem with ideology is this. The people at the top of the system are often more resistant to change than those at the bottom of society. The reason for that resistance is that those people are not working with the same thing as their henchmen. So, at the top of the organization, change is seen as a cost. They often think that it’s easier to continue with old methods. The new technology involves some risk. And because business is driven by money, not innovation, the old-fashioned technology is still used. Things. Like combustion engines, which are tools that are over 150 years old. 

This is why. The people. Those who pay lots of taxes. They are against change. The people who are working on the floor level want new machines. They are more open to new ideas than people at the top of the system. People think that this is the entire truth. But then. We can go back to the Soviet Union. The advanced forces took command in that nation in 1917. 

Then, for some reason, the most advanced state was left far behind the Western world. And the reason was again the same. People who ruled the state resist the change. In the 1970s, the Soviet Union was the leading state in robotics. They send Lunahod moon rovers to the moon. They tried to send a similar rover to Mars. At the same time. The Soviets tested systems that they could use on the battlefield. The Lunahod could act as a prototype for robot tanks. But. The lack of imagination. Caused those programs to be terminated. 

Once, the Polish Sci-Fi writer Stanislaw Lem introduced the idea of drone swarms in his novel “The Invincible”. The Soviets and other Warsaw Pact countries didn’t notice that idea. The idea of drone attacks is also introduced in some crime novels. In the novel The Brotherhood of the Rose. The novelist David Morrell made the main character eliminate his victim by using a remote-control aircraft. Those novels written in the 1960s and 1980’s. 

But still today, those killer drones came as a surprise on the Ukrainian front. We are known. Things like remotely controlled miniature hobby planes. For a very long time. Anyone can buy one of them from a shop. And anyone can connect a dynamite, a lighter gas bottle, and a remote launcher to them. But we are not prepared for those things. 

Then. Those innovations were lost. This caused a situation. That Western drove past the Soviets. The bureaucracy caused. Some innovations were old when the first prototypes came out from the production line. 

This is the main problem. All over the field. When we try to create fuels and systems that can make us independent from oil. There are only malfunctions and money loss. In those systems. We can say that hydrogen is a suitable fuel for turbine plants. But if we think that we should only make the system. This makes our vehicles independent of oil. We could use alcohol. Or the shaper saying ethanol as fuel. Ethanol is a good fuel, but it is a hydrocarbon. 

Lunahod 1

All hydrocarbons cause carbon emissions. Hydrogen is easy to produce. By using electrolysis. But electrolysis requires electricity. And the way. How electricity is made. Determines how environmentally friendly that fuel is. When we think. About things like solar panels, we see how ineffective they can be. The main problem is that those solar panels do not use any fuel. The effect of the solar panel can be boosted by using the turbogenerators. In those systems, the sunlight. It rises. The temperature in the water circuit. And this water or some other liquid will be sent through the turbine. This system can be used. As a cooling system with solar panels. This kind of hybrid system can increase the system’s power. 

Another thing. That could replace oil in engines is hydrogen peroxide or sulphuric acid. The system must only drive water in the cylinder chamber. And then inject peroxide or sulphuric acid into the cylinder. That means it's possible. The diesel engine can be turned. Into a steam engine that doesn’t require oil-based fuels. Production of sulphuric acid and peroxide requires a chemical factory. And at least the last one is very poisonous and corrosive. 

But the main problem is that. People still want to use so-called trusted methods. Wind energy can kill birds. Solar panels are not effective, and geothermal energy destroys roads. At the same time. Things like oil drills do not cause the fall of Earth's surface. Things like data centers are using too much electricity. But the thing called an ice rink doesn’t use electricity for nothing. The problem is that. When people have a negative attitude toward something new. That causes a situation. That people see only the negative. Things from those ideas. When we think that there is something wrong with the world today. We must realize that our economic solutions. Like full employment. They are from somewhere in the Roman Empire or Ancient Greece before the Roman Empire. 

We must accept that in the future. We cannot offer workplaces to all people. And people are not working traditionally. The problem with change is that. Modern new machines and AI. Make their work better and without breaks. Those systems are far more effective than human workers. Firms that use technology without prejudice are more effective than firms that don’t accept those things. Humans cannot compete with robots in simple mechanical work. Humans are more creative than AI. But in mechanical work, like serial production. Robots beat humans. Human operators can make the first object that comes out of the production line. But at the same time, they educate the AI. And AI and robots. Make the next objects in the series without humans. 

Advancing is not always positive. When we start to use new machines, we lose something. When we developed the Net, we lost something very important. We lost our physical community. Medieval people worked together. They met each other every day. They sing and work together. But there is also a cost for that community. Those communities were very intolerant of foreigners. Also, people who were different than others were sometimes even killed. So we must realize that. When we nostalize the past, we forget that everything was not good in those “good old times”. When we think that people who work in their homes are slaves of the net. And then we can call them to the office, and say that they are happier there, we must ask two more questions. 

Are we social in those offices, or are we sitting in a box, where there are no windows at all? Do we really talk? To each other? Maybe we do those things. But when we desire the way that people must come to the office, because they are happier that way, we must ask one thing: Do we underestimate our henchmen? Can we really think that our henchmen are happier in office, even if we are? When we sit in the office, we must ask: Are we really?  Making work that the employer pays for? Entire day? If our boss orders six work performances for the day, is it enough that we complete those works? And then the day is over. Or should we sit on our work computer for the rest of the day, and read some cartoons? The question is always: When we go to work, what do we actually do during the entire day? 

China brings. New innovations to markets in a very short timeline. And that means we can lose the technology race to the East. China can be far less bureaucratic. Than Western nations, when they want. They can make colossal space stations. And create AI-controlled drones. They create robot-operated, fully automated factories. And there is no problem with unemployment. We all want to resist things like AI-controlled combat robots. But if somebody. Brings them to the battlefield. That gives superiority to that operator. This is the reason why we are in the race. Or in the same wheel with AI and quantum development. 

Quantum systems and AI-controlled, synchronized morphing neural networks are tools that can make binary encryption ineffective. The problem is that if some hostile actor reaches quantum superiority. That actor can dominate the world. Quantum supremacy. Makes it possible to create cyber attacks that can paralyze an entire nation. A cyberattack that destroys civil and military databases can turn the entire country into a chaotic situation. What if we lost all our computers? 

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-jobs-automation-expert

https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/34-emerging-technologies-that-will-change-the-world/54326/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brotherhood_of_the_Rose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible