Yes, but what are the goals of that, "intelligent design," other than making things easier for us, concentrating our focus/order in the process, as well as seeking out forms of energy to do it with?

Efficiency is to do more with less, so the ideal would be to do everything with nothing.

Then all the feedback loops of everyone trying to mine money/resources out of the social system.

Essentially a lot goes to satisfying our raw desires. The more people, the more basic the common denominators. Like money as an end in itself. The medium as message.

Then there are the arts and sciences, in their purest form. Which is to explore any way possible to expand our conceptual bubbles of perception and stores of knowledge. Generally funded by the possibility of generating future profits, or at least burning off stored wealth, often to seek redemption.

Expand/consolidate=growth. Like tree rings.

Remember, nature had developed comparable levels of biological, as opposed to our technical complexity, a hundred million years ago.

The digestive system processing the energy, the nervous system sorting the information and the circulation system as feedback between the other two.