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"a significant part of society will retreat into virtual reality and drug addiction." Sound like chaos to me ;)

• jackcosgrove 10y ago
  I don't think we can pretend that most people will be employable, and employ them in make-work jobs. That won't fly even for those who benefit from these jobs - people are too knowledgeable and incredulous now. They will know it is just a game. The population will fall, and indeed it already is falling. VR and drugs sound like a way to sedate people, not drum up chaos.
  • RUG3Y 10y ago
    It sounds an awful lot like the Brave New World.
    • AstralStorm 10y ago
      Indeed it is one possible model of a surprisingly stable society. One other intermediate is to cart them off to space. And then next once population is low enough so that only the best remain in the genetic pool, we might see something special. Plato's republic? That was never possible because you could not have every one be a philosopher scientist as the support base was never there to begin with. Utopia of a kind, probably with people who are no longer quite exactly homo sapiens but a new species even. (super advanced AI could be it) There are many ways to have a temporary dystopia but how many to have a permanent one? Huxley foresaw specialising humans to the kind of work they are supposed to do, but he never foresaw the tools we now have. Now then, we need not agree with Mond's goal.