Technology can only exist if enough people buy into it.
This is a true statement. Because if people suddenly turn on technology and destroy it all and kill all the people who know how to make it then technology ends.
Often educated people don't realize that nothing exists if the common people rise up against it.
If you observe history it really doesn't matter what educated or aristocracies of the past thought or did.
It mattered whether the common people put up with what the aristocracies of the past did.
If what the aristocracies did benefited the masses enough it continued and if it didn't the masses rose up in one way or another and stopped whatever was happening that they decided they weren't going to put up with anymore.
However, if someone created a robot army could the masses rise up against this too?
It would be harder but I think eventually the masses would also succeed in bringing down any robot army too.
No. What could bring down all mankind is only some kind of pandemic that doesn't have an immune class of people within it.
A robot army would be defeated because anything manufactured has some kind of weakness that can be exploited even if it is only the manufacturing process itself.
So, when people talk about a Technological Singularity, a Singularity can only exist if the people support it existing.
If the common people withdraw their support of any technology, sooner or later it ends.
So, any technological Singularity is completely dependent upon what the masses actually will put up with in any given situation.
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