>>310094081
It may have just been an arms race all along. Thousands of years of total war, fundamentally the same as the daily competition for survival of all life. Strong hunter-gatherers die out while sickly farmers dominate all land in the first agricultural revolution. Every time farming improved, the population simply grew; more people, same quality of life. In the industrial revolution, living on one's own farm was replaced by living 20 to a room and working in a poisonous factory. What next? Augmentation to become a 24/7 productive employee who needs no rest? We are perhaps blessed to live in this exact moment in time.