[squarefoot]

"We need to be using technology to find better ways to resolve conflicts"

Technology is neither the problem nor the cure. Scarcity, greed and artificial scarcity is what divides the rich from the poor and moves money keeping the status quo in which the rich becomes richer and poor remains poor enough to not be a harm to the rich but rich enough to be taxed (read: used). The day we go to Mars or elsewhere and say we discover an unlimited supply of materials that could change forever our life, someone will find a way to close the faucet in order to keep the economy untouched. There is constant need of poor people because the poor is easier to herd and use, send to work in harsh condition, lure with lies to get votes and/or send to war, etc. The problem (and the solution) is all in the human brain, no technology can help. If we make the next thousand years of evolution without killing our species, then maybe.

[syshum]

I 100% disagree, the solution to all of those problems lies in technology,

Now technology can also be, and is being used to create artificial scarcity and other issues, but it can also be used to bring down those same barriers, to allow people opportunities they never had in the past.

Technology can be both the problem and the cure.