"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." — T. S. Eliot

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." — T. S. Eliot I've often thought that the ideal post-scarcity lifestyle would be to live in giant gardens (in giant rotating space habitats no less) where we can run around hunting, gathering, telling stories around the campfire and sleeping under the stars, and occasionally spending time in the lab or workshop or in zero-g building stuff. i.e. hunting and gathering -> agriculture -> industrialisation -> automation -> hunting and gathering (and space engineering)