What is everything but the interplay of people, process, and technology? Do these prime ingredients not define a big part of our lives and social order?
I believe there is a God overall who provides us with these things, and the ability to use them. Isn’t He, in giving humans free will, affording us opportunity to live in context of other peoples, following the order of process, and changing things through technology?
I think this interplay of people, process, and technology overarches life. This trilogy can provide a framework to understand many things.
When the command comes to ‘do the right thing’, we are apt to be pulling (or considering to pull) one or some combination of these three levers. We hear of ‘systemic problems’ are usually indicative of someone pulling or not pulling one of these levers. Possibly in the wrong manner or at the wrong time. Here then we fall into the sticky wicket of ‘rightness’, which can take you back to the God factor.
It’s like a three-legged stool on which sits our existence. Luck and happenstance are a function of what has been done or tried via these three determinants. (We make our own luck). Positive human interests offer true power and favorable destiny.
People are principal among the three. If only we all had steadfast morals and showed love, especially the leaders. People: the hope and the rub.
Process is key to predictability, order, and growth. For example, government and business are healthy processes, or inter-related processes, or mutually self-serving.
Technology is a daunting wildcard; it is the most overtly manipulated and manipulatable factor. The technology challenge used to be relatively simple; that of constructively applying it as fast as it becomes available. There was always trepidation when the best-available technology (like early computers to wage war) was used for destructive purposes. Now, a more nuanced use of technology is hurting individual people; here I reference social media and their unfathomable profits.
Quality of life, culture and civilization sit on top of this three-legged stool. So, take one of the legs away, and it is a problem.