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I would think that in such a society, people would upload blueprints for how to create things, which you could then send to your local manufacturing plant to ge

I would think that in such a society, people would upload blueprints for how to create things, which you could then send to your local manufacturing plant to get built. Some sort of advanced 3d printer could even see these sorts of things widespread. Additionally it would be 100% recyclable, with the idea that you would 'give back to the earth' when you were done with it (materialism would be a thing of the past).

flareback 10y ago
It doesn't matter how it gets created if there is only the manufacturing capability to produce x amount yet more than x number of people want it? Maybe there isn't the raw materials to produce it, perhaps it takes too long to produce. Maybe it's that we all want our own spaceship and don't want to be under the command of Captain Picard. Maybe it's something even more limited like a house exactly on the north pole. Without money, who decides who gets to live exactly on the north pole?
- hacker_9 10y ago
  Perhaps with a VR setup like The Matrix, we could all have what we want all the time. Within the society of the world though, there are rules and hard limits so we can all live together peacefully. Besides everyone having their own stuff is what caused many of our problems in the first place, but this is a very hard mindset to get out of (survival instinct being the root cause of it, meaning it's biologically hardcoded behaviour).
blakeyrat 10y ago
Ok I want lake-front property with a view of Mount Rainier. What address do I send my blueprint to? Oh wait. I'll never understand why people who promote this "magical robots solve everything" view ignore the simple examples that robots, no matter how sophisticated, cannot fix. For example, scarcity of prime real estate.
- hacker_9 10y ago
  One of the main problems with housing is it is stuck in place, which gives rise to lots of problems: 1. you have to build round existing structures 2. if the sea level rises, there is nothing you can do 3. small roads can't be widened to accommodate heavier traffic and so on. In the future the concept of a fixed house would be bizarre, with everything being able to be made portable. It would be normal to have giant shifts in house placement and rewiring of pipes and electricity via AI bots, in order to accommodate change.
  - blakeyrat 10y ago
    Ok so it's the future and the magical robots can easily move houses. Why would the guy with the beautiful lake front property move his house? Why would he make his lot smaller to let other people live closer to him? What's his incentive? Being able to easily move a house doesn't do anything to make lake front property less scarce. If your answer is: "the government would force him", then that sounds more like a dystopia than a utopia.
  - marcosdumay 10y ago
    > In the future the concept of a fixed house would be bizarre, with everything being able to be made portable. People have been predicting this for some 200 years. It's older than flying cars.

flareback 10y ago

It doesn't matter how it gets created if there is only the manufacturing capability to produce x amount yet more than x number of people want it? Maybe there isn't the raw materials to produce it, perhaps it takes too long to produce. Maybe it's that we all want our own spaceship and don't want to be under the command of Captain Picard. Maybe it's something even more limited like a house exactly on the north pole. Without money, who decides who gets to live exactly on the north pole?

hacker_9 10y ago
Perhaps with a VR setup like The Matrix, we could all have what we want all the time. Within the society of the world though, there are rules and hard limits so we can all live together peacefully. Besides everyone having their own stuff is what caused many of our problems in the first place, but this is a very hard mindset to get out of (survival instinct being the root cause of it, meaning it's biologically hardcoded behaviour).

blakeyrat 10y ago

Ok I want lake-front property with a view of Mount Rainier. What address do I send my blueprint to? Oh wait. I'll never understand why people who promote this "magical robots solve everything" view ignore the simple examples that robots, no matter how sophisticated, cannot fix. For example, scarcity of prime real estate.

hacker_9 10y ago
One of the main problems with housing is it is stuck in place, which gives rise to lots of problems: 1. you have to build round existing structures 2. if the sea level rises, there is nothing you can do 3. small roads can't be widened to accommodate heavier traffic and so on. In the future the concept of a fixed house would be bizarre, with everything being able to be made portable. It would be normal to have giant shifts in house placement and rewiring of pipes and electricity via AI bots, in order to accommodate change.
- blakeyrat 10y ago
  Ok so it's the future and the magical robots can easily move houses. Why would the guy with the beautiful lake front property move his house? Why would he make his lot smaller to let other people live closer to him? What's his incentive? Being able to easily move a house doesn't do anything to make lake front property less scarce. If your answer is: "the government would force him", then that sounds more like a dystopia than a utopia.
- marcosdumay 10y ago
  > In the future the concept of a fixed house would be bizarre, with everything being able to be made portable. People have been predicting this for some 200 years. It's older than flying cars.