> Software's free and hardware is cheap. Imho that hardware part really depends on scale. As nice as the thought might be, I doubt there are enough resources o

> Software's free and hardware is cheap. Imho that hardware part really depends on scale. As nice as the thought might be, I doubt there are enough resources on Earth for a future where 8 billion people live a leisurely first world lifestyle in their smart homes with IT gadgets all around them, while robots take care of all the manual labor that needs to be done. All that hardware requires resources and those resources are finite, at least on that little piece of rock we like to call Earth. As of right now that's pretty much the current ceiling for humanities progress and it ain't a very high one.