Violence in the Future Transformation of the System
In the 22nd century, violence mutates into technological, algorithmic, and institutionally embedded force. Power operates through exclusion, information control, and biopolitical governance. At the same time, decentralized forms of resistance emerge. The System will not change through a single upheaval but through countless micro-ruptures that gradually construct a new societal model.
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Violence as the engine of transition from the old to the new
By Diotima
In the 22nd century, violence will not disappear; it will mutate. It will not manifest as the raw brutality of wars and uprisings, but as technologically mediated, structurally embedded, and institutionally disguised force. The old world will be dying slowly, but the new one will not be born without its midwife. In 2125, this “midwife” will not carry a weapon — it will carry an algorithm.
1. Technological violence as the dominant mechanism
“Violence” will manifest not through bullets but through access exclusions, opaque algorithmic decisions, informational control, and novel biopolitical governance.
Algorithms will determine:
- who works and who is excluded,
- who accesses energy networks,
- who enjoys full digital rights and who lives “off-grid.”
Violence becomes impersonal. It has no commander; it simply is.
2. Biopolitical violence of large-scale systems
States and supranational structures will enforce order not through armies but through structural regulation of life: from healthcare access to the management of human mobility.
This will be marketed as “rational policy.”
Violence will no longer be a spectacle; it will be infrastructure.
3. Social counter-forces
Yet as the mechanism evolves, so does resistance: new forms of civil disobedience.
Not street protests, but:
- decentralized citizen networks,
- information guerrilla movements,
- subversive technologies breaking through algorithmic power.
Violence will not belong only to the System; it will also be directed against it.
4. The transition to the new System
When the old structure reaches its limits, the conflict will not resemble civil war or global war. It will be a “war” between models of organizing life:
- hyper-centralized power architectures,
- versus decentralized, self-organized communities.
The final systemic shift will not come from a single great revolution but from thousands of micro-ruptures converging into a new paradigm.