What If We Never Become Post-Scarcity? (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of Technology
We do not know yet how VR or some other awesome new technology that might help with more social needs might affect society in a practical sense. I also expect most folks would find real parallel leadership terribly disappointing, at least if it was realistic. There's an episode of Rick and Morty where they have a sliding realism control on a video game and find out how tedious and boring saying the realism to high really is. For instance, this show is family-friendly so we don't dwell on the uses of virtual reality or human-passable androids for satisfying human intimacy needs.
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