The Cybercosm And The Environment

Poul Anderson, The Stars Are Also Fire, 21.

To create or restore, then maintain, a sound ecology requires:

the will;
an economic surplus;
a superhuman analysis and comprehension. (p. 277)

Therefore, the cybercosm rules the biosphere better than mankind. Governments heed its counsel but then become dependent on that counsel without understanding it. I begin to see how collective human decision-making atrophies. The other side of that coin is that human politics had previously been:

short-sighted;
ignorant;
superstitious;
impassioned;
mistake-repeating. (ibid.)

I do believe that we can transcend the mess inflicted by history and ourselves but we have not done so yet. In Anderson's The Stars Are Also Fire, as at the end of Asimov's I, Robot, human beings do not solve their problems but construct Artificial Intelligences that solve the problems for them.