06-15-2020, 02:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2020, 03:05 AM by Blazkovitz.)
(06-14-2020, 06:47 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Brave New World -- literally. Such implies its own hierarchy of privilege and deprivation based upon intelligence. But note well that that dystopian society still depends upon the intellectual "deltas" and "epsilons" who end up doing the mindless, repetitive toil such as farm labor.
I didn't read Huxley's Brave New World, but I don't think my ideal of the future is comparable to it. "Hierarchy of privilege and deprivation based upon intelligence"? There might be still hierarchy, but basic human societies often get extremely hierarchical, from Pharaoh's Egypt to modern China. As for deprivation, there should be less deprivation than in the current era. Deltas and epsilons won't be needed, because all mindless and repetitive toil will be done by machines.
I'm sure that I've written about post-scarcity here, but in case I didn't:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/53727c57a8402
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48239c6673359
It will take long time to get there, but there will be progressively less and less deprivation, not more.
Quote:Man will need some integration with machines just to move fast (vehicles) or to work in dangerous environments (space, the deep sea, highly-radioactive or anoxic locations, maybe some very deep (and hot) mines... maybe we will have integration of mechanical parts with the human mind to extend lifespans of the mind or to restore natural mobility to people who have lost it due to amputations or spinal-cord injuries)... but we had better preserve our human characteristics for such to work.
100% agreement. Maybe we will figure out how to control machines remotely with out thoughts, using some wifi-like units implanted in the brain, rather than becoming ugly Cybermen.
