Without going into any debate about the inherent "good" or "bad" of the nature of polarization of human society, it is arguably an inevitable consequence of similar principles that act on speciation in biology. In its roots are the success of individuals.
Observation: Modern medicine allows for people with genetic diseases to survive and propagate.
Postulate 1: Since the advent of modern science and medicine, the rate of propagation of disease-inferring genes has likely increased. This is not due to a biological niche, but instead is economical access to therapeutic resources.
Postulate 2: Humans are becoming genetically "weaker", accumulating physical disadvantages that would have been selected against before the advent of modern science.
Therefore: The increasing and accelerating number of genetic diseases that appear drive the expansion of scientific research to address these biological shortcomings.
A positive feedback loop has been created.
There is not all doom and gloom. We may not become slaves to life-supporting machines.
The demand for more rigorous solutions for to the increasing complexity of accumulating problems drives the selection of brighter minds and stronger collaborative effort to overcome the roadblocks.
However, those that control the new technology easily become part of an elite relative to those who demand the treatment.
Our culture finds yet another way to polarize itself, as the despairity between those who need cures and those who develop them increases.
Who are the predators and who are the prey?
