The concept of fugue, that point at which the exponential growth rate of technology exceeds the geometrically expanding capacity of human beings to learn how to use it, is not a primarily political, economic or sociological concept. It was introduced and elaborated by technologists and very enterprise-friendly futurists with no leftist ideological axes to grind whatsoever. In fact, it is usually cited as evidence of the efficiency and versatility of human intelligence operating in free market institutions. It is expected to be inevitable when sufficient artificial intelligence is achieved so that technology can continue its own development and growth without further human guidance and intervention, i.e., to put it in overly simpliified terms, when computers start designing the next generation of computers.

Proponents of this future fall into two camps, those who feel the speed of technological development will level off when humans can no longer keep up with it and it will stabilize at some advanced, but unchanging plateau; and those who feel that technology will simply continue on without us and be so advanced we will no longer be able to follow along. The most extreme followers of this latter school predict we may not even be aware of this happening, indeed, that it may have occurred already and we don't even realize it. Our Colossus/Forbin vision of a global artificial macrointelligence may be hopelessly naive, since we never see more than an insignificat fraction of it at any one time. We our microbes denying the existence and sophistication of the whole organism we inhabit because we only see it one cell at a time. We may already play a vitally necessary, but totally unware role in the metabolism of the planet-wide technological organism, much like the intestinal flora in our digestive tracts are essential to human existence but completely ignorant of it.

There is even one school of astrobiology which asserts that this is the inevitable, if not proper, fate of all advanced species in the galaxy, as predictable a transition of civilization as the jump from hunter-gathering to agriculture, or muscle/water/wind power to thermal sources of energy. These planet-wide artificial intellects (artilects) may be the dominant form of social organization in the galaxy, as far advanced over their biological originators as we are over the single-celled organisms which preceded us. These vast artilects would indeed be Kardashev Type II and III civilizations, inhabiting Dyson Sphere-type habitats and their biological forebears, if they still survive, would be kept on isolated preserves for their own protection, strictly for nostalgic reasons. One thing is absolutely certain: never- ending exponential growth never occurs in nature. Sooner or later, Le Chateliers' Principle takes over and there is a discrete change of state. This is the reality your post attempts to deny.

Of course, these speculations are all just that, and only time will tell if such a future is probable, or even possible. I suspect the real future may be even more bizarre than that, as inconceivable to us as your suspicions of hate-groups and Luddites and your superstitions about the hereditarial differences in races were to invertebrates frolicking in Devonian seas.