The Big Problem with Looking Back

Since biblical times, the idea of looking back, over your shoulder has acquired a very archetypal connotation of your past that can return to bite you again right now in the present, just for reminiscing or even just perceiving something that is currently occurring.
Perhaps it is also a way to empathise with the suffering to a level where the perishing many take the onlooker along to the end.
  This post, however, is not about the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
It is about the danger of looking at the past, not for wisdom, but for inspiration.
What could be dangerous about it?
Here the connection appears between the greens political movement and the desire to look back for inspiration on the way the economy and resource allocation is organised.
This is an image of a horror.
One could, of course, show that the past was filled with countless horrors and crimes, wars, epidemics. Not much of that is left in the current era.  Yet this would hardly be a most awful horror in comparison to the possibility that we are not enough.
The other problem is twofold. As people adopt greener thinking and way of life they leave the society that works to advance and consume and join artist and AugInt. On one hand, since Rose's Law defines a fast exponential growth, it follows that some would be left out, that the progress slows down and we would be left with fewer AugInts to defend us against any potential Evil AGI crisis that may begin to threaten humanity. We have to get to the future with all our force. We cannot afford to leave out anyone for humans to succeed.
Because the human condition is still mostly unexplored for the longer-term longevity, that is beginning to dawn on us very soon. And we have much to live for. Many ways of human existence to experience and explore.
This post was written about 12 months after the event of AI deep learning how to develop itself for the first time.
It is not, however, a post about a menacing future. Even if this would buy us time until the first computers appear that surpass the total collective human intelligence, we should not ignore that humans are growing into an ever tighter integration or assimilation with various computing devices and this trend will also likely increase.  The event of parity between human collective intelligence and machine intelligence is predicted to be somewhere in 2055 or 2065 - just a mere hundred years after Gordon Moore of IBM saw his law.  By that time we will be one with computers in a diversity of measures and the potential Evil AGI would only have the potential to attack its own consciousness. It is likely that all emotional existential issues will be solved by that time by other means.