When predicting the future, we almost never get it right (Except for Back to the Future part 2, which was ridiculously accurate), but this list sums up a lot of my feelings. It’s one of the reasons I moved to my farm in south central, rural KY from Seattle.
But some of these things will change even faster than the article predicts. I think we really are on the cusp of ensuring perfect health and immortality - cheaply. It’s why I think the Lord’s return is imminent. Well, it’s one of the reasons.
The part of this that I think we lack a solution to is the jobs part. Most of us will or already are becoming superfluous in an economic sense.
However, we’ve only ever come up with one real way to distribute goods to individuals who don’t have stored wealth, and that’s via work.
“Them as works, eats,” they used to say but now the economy does not NEED for nearly as many people to work to produce enough food and shelter for all.
Socialism is one solution, just give stuff to everyone whether they work or not, but it fosters terrible qualities in human beings. Even when the economic value of working is meaningless, the moral value of HAVING to work is enormous.
I see the solar energy, 3D printing, AI, and materials handling technology all creating a situation in which most jobs are unnecessary or voluntary in another 2-3 decades.
Once the technology that produces the petri dish veal ‘marries’ the 3D printing technology, you will essentially have the replicator from Star Trek. So long to starvation, as long as stuff (anything really) carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen is around to feed into the machine.
Want something made? Even if it is a house, download the software, make the parts for it, and ‘rent’ some robot time to put your house together.