Advances in technology can render older technologies obsolete. A good example of this is cell phone technology, which has leapfrogged [1] landline technology in many parts of the world.
Landline penetration is high in developed countries, but there are only a few landlines in underdeveloped and developing nations. Now, many people in underdeveloped and developing nations who don't have landlines, have cell phones.
It's projected that there are over 7 billion active cell phones in the world today [2], about equal to the world's current population of over 7 billion people. [3]
I present the above example as an analogy.
Today, we're all immersed in selfishness, pursuing wealth and material possessions as our primary objective. However, there are only a few wealthy people in the world. Most of us are struggling to make ends meet, living hand to mouth or living in abject poverty.
If we connect with each other in mutual bestowal and if we seek to benefit others instead of ourselves, we'll create a new way of living that will render the old way of living obsolete.
We'll leapfrog the pursuits of the quality of selfishness and we'll begin to live in the quality of bestowal. We'll stop pursuing wealth and material possessions because we'll have new priorities and new goals: In everything we do, we'll seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
References:
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1. Leapfrogging. www.wikipedia.org. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
2. Number of mobile phones to exceed world population by 2014. www.digitaltrends.com. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
3. Current World Population. www.worldometers.info. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
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