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I've used the phrase trickle-down tech in a comment here last month. I completely agree with your points. In the face of political uncertainty and democratic subversion of which I am individually incapable of affecting for the better, I feel like the next best thing I can do is to help the world develop technologically in such a way that there's no alternative but to raise the floor for standards of living.
I'm of the opinion that most of my ideas come to me from passive reading of other people's ideas that I hadn't fully absorbed in the moment, so I'm almost certain that your post triggered mine.
As for raising standards of living, I genuinely think that the biggest game changer will be 3D printing. The Pandora's box of Pandora's box. Why build a house from scratch when you can copy your neighbour's prototype and modify it slightly to your needs and let it print. I don't know when it's going to happen. My gut says probably not in the next 20 years.