I guess he doesn’t see flying cars just yet.
If there was ever going to be a signal for the imminent collapse of human civilization, this is it.
It's going to take someone to make all of the power to run those robots and 3-D printers.
It's going to take someone to service all of those robots and 3-D printers.
It's going to take someone to source, transport, and refined the resources used by those robots and 3-D printers.
And someone's still going to need to produce food and drink. And handle waste processing. And negotiate real estate (through barter, purchase, or lease agreement) to find room to live.
Then there are the matters of policing the violent, exploitive, and thieves in society.
The more things change, the more they will stay the same.
Ping!
Been that way since the end of WWII. Governments have consistently thwarted it. I see no reason not to believe they will continue to do so...or worse!
Progressives, socialists, communists, democrats..et.al. These people don’t want a world where every man has all that he needs.
How can they rule a population that needs nothing from government?
They will kick and scream all the way to the future.
They don’t really want cheap and clean power at low cost. They want global warming hysteria and a public made destitute trying to pay the fuel and electric bill.
Anything that makes men free and self sufficient is like garlic to a vampire for them.... they want everyone dependent upon government so they can be in control.
Democrats are really gonna hate the future.
I foresee infinite boredom. . . Man is meant to accomplish things and the vast majority are not cut out for creative work, sad to say. When work is gone, they will have to create make work jobs. . . or non-creative types will find something destructive to do.
Electronics introduced a world where we would use significantly less paper than ever before.
Yet, over the last 30 years and at this point today, the world consumes 50% more paper than we imagined we would.
At that so called apogee of utilization of trees, 4 trees were felled, today nearly 6 trees are destroyed.
We will consume 10% more paper than we today in just the next decade.
Fix that Mr. TED intellect.
Howard Mumford Jones
Print tens of thousands of these.
Ther will be no abundance of anything but misery if enviromentalists have a
say.
I predict Peter Diamandis’ prediction will never come true. Society will break first. In my opinion, humans will not even want to live in the world he describes.
But, then, maybe that’s just me. I do know that I, at 66 years (because of my family history) am one of the last of the depression generation. Born after, but mentally of that generation.