The lion kingdom long predicted that the only way to overcome the human condition was to stop hiring other humans to govern us & paw over that responsibility to a computer. Nowadays, the term "digital superintelligence" has been coined. The mane problem was humans would never sit down & elect a digital superintelligence to replace their self government, but it could happen gradually. Would say the gradual replacement is inevitable & already happening.

It's happening through the automation of investing. 1st, there was high frequency trading. Clearly, as the debt cycle, bailouts & new currency printing repeats over & over & over there are going to be more regulations of automated trading. It will lead to every line of code being mandated by a regulation. The trading algorithms may become so complex, we all standardize on the same one. It'll make better decisions than any human.  It'll factor in some minimal amount of sustainability & could be the end of the debt cycle. It's not a big step from now to realize we're better off relying on a computer to manage all our money instead of governing ourselves. 

The automated trading will eventually become the 1st digital superintelligence tasked with governing part of our lives.   Its objective is to stop us from living beyond our means while giving us enough credit to innovate.  Unfortunately, creating new currencies, whether digital, blockchain based or noodle salad based won't make any difference.  The human doing the trading is the problem.

It's not a big step from now to realize we're better off relying on a computer to manage all our money instead of governing ourselves. From the 1st little step comes a bigger step.

Humans who trade stocks are more obsolete than the humans who translate ATC commands to stick & rudder movements.