I know it sound weird, but is the next step for humanity to forgo their will and ambitions for the sake of prospering as a race.
Transhumanism, collective mind, eradication of borders, one world currency, a systematized world government is what we are seeing right now and it won't stop nor change.
This is a monster way worse than capitalism or communism and is rooted in esoterism and intention.
You are correct that this is the product of technology and what technology enables and you're definitely correct that it's worse than any sort of capitalism or communism or fascism for that matter because it's very goal is to obliterate the human spirit and destroy the diversity and natural evolution of our cultures. In the same way that steel, gunpowder, and navigation/shipbuilding led Europeans to conquer the world about 500 years ago, the internet and instant data to anywhere in the world allows those who control that technology to conquer humanity.
And this is really the saddest part, because all of these transhumanist technologies like the internet, AI, brain interfaces, cryptocurrency/digital economies, etc. could be used for so much good, yet instead it will just be used to create a new form of oppression. Was it inevitable? It probably was once the powers that be realized what sort of information you could gain on people and all the levels of control that were possible.
But it's really hard to square the idea of us getting much more advanced without having some level of Great Reset-esque shit. Like privacy, it's almost impossible to have a digital society as we have it with any semblance of privacy, and in the future you'd theoretically be able to do shit like kill people over the internet (by hacking their brains and telling it to shut the body down) or whip up ebolaids using a pocket Wuhan Institute of Virology and cause insane amounts of damage and panic.
You can see a little bit of that today with China. China is a third-world country with a coat of first-world paint on it. If global authorities were allowed to impose their standards on China, would the Wuhan Institute of Virology be a cesspit of deadly disease stored improperly in rusty freezers? Probably not. That's why a one-world government and no borders would, in theory, eliminate this problem. Nobody wants some third-world shithole with doomsday tech creating some super AI or deadly disease and accidently letting it lose because their technicians were a bunch of idiots and their was no security. That personal control needs to go down to the level of the individual, where everyone is constantly watched to ensure society keeps functioning and nobody does a terrorist attack or something.
I believe a lot is to do with how much energy the average citizen can access. Not your energy bill of course, but some vague combination of what's in your food, your vehicle, your computer (not just the parts, but use of cloud storage, etc.) your house, etc. and what it took to produce and ship that to you. At the highest level of society this would include shit like "you own your own spaceship with solid gold rims straight from the mines of Mercury". Private spaceship ownership would incidentally fall under this given a spaceship engine is orders of magnitude stronger than a jet. They either won't let you have one or they won't let you fly it (i.e. it will be automated). Incidentally, the problem here is just a supersized version of the "self-driving car" thing which is definitely part of the Great Reset agenda (if they can ever figure how to make it work).
And if your average citizen has access to too much energy, then bad things happen. It's not too expensive to get (or steal) a rifle with a scope/sights that is superior to anything used in World War II. Combine that with easy access to all the documentaries about Columbine or whatever and it's no surprise you get mass shootings everywhere. Now I'm not saying the solution is to ban guns or censor shit about Columbine since I believe it's a cultural problem, but to fix a cultural problem implies some level of social engineering. We'll have to increase that level of engineering as more and more dangerous technology becomes easily available and the capability for accidents or terrorism becomes higher.
There won't be currencies. No borders and a unified government systematized.
Pretty much every society ever has used some sort of medium of exchange be it shells or shiny rocks or bones or whatever. Even if it's from the government and good for only a particular thing, people will still find a way to trade it just like they do with EBT down in the hood.
And you'll still have to deal with Christians and their bitch fit. Since a One World Government is what's supposed to happen when the Antichrist arrives. Not to mention the freak out from every Peter Joseph and Alex Jones fan who have been saying a One World Government is around the corner.
That's what I thought too before 2020 where we stepped into Alex Jones world. It's been about a year now since the "15 days to flatten the curve" ended, which was about the time the "pandemic" stopped being about science and instead about whatever "science" governments could find to maintain unprecedented amounts of control over their people like forcing people to wear a cloth over their mouth as a sign of conformity. One year later, they are forcing people to accept their questionable vaccine and tying it to a unique pass that if you don't have it you will be forbidden from entering stores or public transportation.
You'd think there'd be people in the streets not only in the US, but Europe too, but it took almost a year for any serious protest movement to build and nobody important has been dragged in the streets and lynched. Even the people who protested in the Capitol were there mainly because of the Orange Man and not because both parties were stripping away freedom while people like Trump just tweeted impotently. If the global elite can have their plandemic with such little issue, they won't have much of an issue imposing this. I think the main resistance will be sporadic protest, failed lawsuits, and a couple of lonewolf terrorist (I'd call them freedom fighters IMO) attacks here and there. Of course, it doesn't have to be that way, but I think any resistance to the Great Reset will be tantamount to World War III. They won't let their golden opportunity for endless power and control slip away so easily.