On: Build the "USS Enterprise" in 20 years, for 1 trillion USD

[gouranga]

Society already does a good job of this without the need for technology or artificial intelligence.

I'd genuinely rather spend my day chopping wood, picking fruit or fishing, but no, I'm chained to a desk in front of Visual Studio 2010 pumping out code to prop up the insurance industry.

I still don't know why I do it. Something has taken me over and it's not artificially intelligent electronics.

[mahyarm → gouranga]

Change jobs, at least you don't have to prop up the insurance industry anymore.

[kitsune_ → mahyarm]

Currently, we're all propping up the insurance industry - There's no escape.

[DennisP → gouranga]

We've been assimilated by a hive mind whose neural impulses are electronic banking transactions.