I. Trustlessness

A society is often encouraged to showcase compassionate attributes so as it’s significance stays distinct in time for later generations to learn from. More often than none these compassionate values remain as just writings on the wall, while what holds the society together or tears it apart are attributes unplanned for or simply out of sight, yet what gets a significant historic attendance are the words on the wall

As the future becomes the present and the present the past, our expectations for a utopian future grows stronger, assuming technological progress will enable us to achieve this future for its neutrality & purity. But if we remain true to the idea, we are moving further away from it at an pace we don’t realise, for each step towards this future relying on technical innovation changes the fundamental concept of utopia itself

Every permutation of the distinct future often relies on imagination to design concepts of the space age, but with each step from the present into the near future these permutations remain concepts in the mind and the reality often a different affair itself, an expected iteration of the present far away from the promise of the future. The assumption that things will progress faster than ever not just technically but morally with new or rather ignore utopian ideas and morals taking root is again a concept that remains in the mind, as the present had only seen morals and values either expand or contract in acceptability, while techical progress follows it’s own distinct path, often planned for the collective by a few minds, with the idea of the ruler and ruled becoming stronger than ever and the belief of its neutrality & purity becoming a propaganda tool to increase its acceptability for profitability

But things change as we plan for systems which no longer rely on directions from us to act and achieve their designed objective or possibly design their own objective. With a historical record of failing to achieve what we meant for, designing these systems becomes a challenging task. The hope remains that these systems will enable to us to be a better version of ourselves but as history dictates we would find a more profitable venture to use these systems for a purpose for which they weren’t designed for, to gain in the short term jeopardising the distinct future. Although a lot of possibilities exist, some even unimaginable in the present the possibility of our failure looms large over everything else making it rather a prophecy than just a possibility, forcing us to have the least faith in human actions for the collective benefit, and design these systems to account for or cancel our narcissism and ensure our survival

Thus the attribute of trustlessness comes into play. So little do we value ourselves morally as a collective that it becomes profitable and even logical to hard code this attribute in the systems of the future and even modify current systems to adapt for it accordingly. From driverless cars to smart contracts and blockchain, the fundamental attribute which holds these systems together is the trustlessness in human nature and actions. One can even say that these systems are a response to the lack of faith in human intellect to see the long term gains for the collective over their own short term desires, and are designed to perform tasks without a human interface required, thus replacing the human element in the processes which increases not just efficiency but improves performance on moral scales, where we fail even where odds of failure don’t exist

The approach to diminish human element in processes isn’t a new concept but it’s at an advanced iteration where in when once the objective to diminish our role was to focus human intellect on key tasks of future design and leave the energy intensive tasks to machines. But with time we are losing those tasks to machines, although we conquer new heights of intellect with each passing day, the collective wisdom keeps falling as does our ability to foresee a collective future together. And to keep us on track to the gateways of utopia we rely on intelligent systems & processes, removing our own interface from the equation to cancel out our narcissism, relying on systems which ironically rely on trustlessness to conserve our future. Our ambitions of utopia don’t even qualify as delusions based on the path we are on but our belief that we are on the right path at least confirms our self deception or rather a planned one