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> > As for wealth, soon technology will remove that option, allowing distributed
> abundance.
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> I'd love to believe this. As have innumerable others for like the past 150 years.

> If we had robots farming all the food and trucking/training/shipping all the food and distributing it to market and/or everyone's front doors, then we will have made a necessary next step toward realizing the dream to which you refer. However there would then be a mega-niche for the engineers and technicians responsible for the production and maintenance of said machines. How much are WE going to have to pay these people? Or are these hundreds of thousands going to produce and maintain for free?

> Or are we going to be "eating" digital food?

> How exactly do you foresee this foreseeable Utopia?

Utopia isn't a word in my working vocabulary. (Broken record, huhn? Hehn.) In Von Neumann style, automation means self-repairing. Or, more simply, ape Nature - which is more my inclination: organic infrastructure, a la the Edenist habitats in Peter F. Hamilton's Confederation Universe. Either way, though. Organic sentient habitats, or non-organic Minds.

It'll happen, perhaps much sooner than later, simply because of the influence of Star Trek on the kiddies, who would pay to do this stuff, and who have invaded the techno-infrastructure, with more on the way.

Scifi frauds. SF illuminates.
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