Well, if no one has any jobs how can they afford to buy all of that sophisticated junk?
Also, who fixes the junk that is supposed to figure out and fix problems with other junk. Is this future human society supposed to make perfect junk that works all the time; I have yet to see any junk work that well.
We won't use mail? How are we going to get all this junk?
This utopia sounds great but we have large populations that can't even get drinking water, before we jump off an decide we need to deal with these amazing "fundamental changes" that will do all these things like allows to get pizza from a magic vending machine, maybe somewhere along the way we can figure out how to just get basic 1900s style plumbing throughout the world. Just an idea.
>Well, if no one has any jobs how can they afford to buy all of that sophisticated junk?
They don't. They are supposed to starve to death, or make some alternative trade economy in vast ghettos.
The rich people, the people who control and own the factories and make the decisions will live in closed patrolled communities, and they won't need those people for anything at all. Maybe as sex workers, but at some point they could just generate genetically-designed people for that.
It would be like feudal kindgoms all over again, with the difference that the people outside the closed walls of the palace/city are not needed at all (whereas in the feudal kingdoms they were the basis for the wealth of the royals, with their agricultural work).
I don't know about that. I think the rich people might find it a touch inconvenient if the peasants rebelled. Not insurmountable, you understand, but ... inconvenient. And distasteful.
Easier to just pay them a small living wage, provide them with cheap entertainment, and dangle the promise of "If you work hard or are lucky, you can become one of the rich too" in front of them.
No, you're being ridiculous. I'm pointing out the reality that this view is unrealistic in multiple ways, it is no proxy. It speaks for itself, really. We have not had any technology as reliable as is claimed so I think it's a little naive of a view, especialy in any time frame remotely related to "changes are coming." As well, the issue of how this is going to get paid for is a real issue for the reality based community. :)
When my dad was my age, a statement like "The entire global economy will soon be managed by a publicly-accessible world-wide computer network" would have seemed similarly ridiculous. Computers are way too slow for that.
The problems we have now will be fixed in ways we haven't yet thought of. We will have new problems, but not the ones we're thinking of. Fundamental changes are always coming.
Also, who fixes the junk that is supposed to figure out and fix problems with other junk. Is this future human society supposed to make perfect junk that works all the time; I have yet to see any junk work that well.
We won't use mail? How are we going to get all this junk?
This utopia sounds great but we have large populations that can't even get drinking water, before we jump off an decide we need to deal with these amazing "fundamental changes" that will do all these things like allows to get pizza from a magic vending machine, maybe somewhere along the way we can figure out how to just get basic 1900s style plumbing throughout the world. Just an idea.