Ida Auken offers us a great postcard from the future in Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better:
When AI and robots took over so much of our work, we suddenly had time to eat well, sleep well and spend time with other people. The concept of rush hour makes no sense anymore, since the work that we do can be done at any time. I don’t really know if I would call it work anymore. It is more like thinking-time, creation-time and development-time.
For a while, everything was turned into entertainment and people did not want to bother themselves with difficult issues. It was only at the last minute that we found out how to use all these new technologies for better purposes than just killing time.
When you start with the assumption of free clean energy, conjectures of a protopian future are easier to swallow. Still, there seems to be something missing in this scenario: whatever happened to capitalism, and the entrenched authority of the neoliberal economy? Did it disappear? Wouldn’t that have led to a collapse?
from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/153726691732
