Quote Originally Posted by space toker
I don't see any sense or logic to your reasoning beyond the opening statement which had me hopeful the rest of your post would be brilliant. Not that it is dumb by any means, I just don't see how you come up with that. If we had "1000fold" better technology, or put another way had technology 1000 years more advanced, why would we all be slaves? I say the technology would be our slave and we would all be free, let the machines and androids and the like do all the mindless monotonous manual labor while we all sit on the beach somewhere sipping a margarita and toking on a joint while collecting a fat check for it! Our only role would be to guide and manage the technology and maintain/repair it, some of that also could be done for us. We could be free to go hiking or swimming or skiing every day instead of report every day to a job we hate and pay the DEA's paychecks in the process. I see great hope for a better world.



merely examples of my opening statement's point. the opening statement was all i had to say, the examples, mere after thoughts based on that first sentence.


the only logic i used in those examples was that if we were using technology 1000 times more powerful than what we have now, what would the cost be to ACHIEVING it? i assumed we would all be forced into labor from early childhood in order to accomplish technology that powerful, "this' fast. (modern day, with technology WE may never see for an eon)


however, in a perfect world, yeah, we would have robots that did all the work, but in order to reach that step, we would have to have technology that was developed for EVERYONE, not just one particular nation, wherein lies the clincher; everyone wants to be the most powerful ruler on earth (not literally EVERYone, but you know what i mean) and will use technology, by all means, to achieve dominance.


there is never a way or form that power craving people DON'T exist, they always do, and always will exist.

without them, there would be no people without any interest in power.



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