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There's a book that takes this general idea in a direction. It's definitely intended as a commentary on society and the future, but you might enjoy reading it.
by gavanm 5y ago
There's a book that takes this general idea in a direction. It's definitely intended as a commentary on society and the future, but you might enjoy reading it.
https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
- heymijo 5y agoThanks for sharing that gavanm. Skimming it shows that others have thought about this much more than me. I look forward to reading it.
- I-M-S 5y agoIf you want to see a more optimistic (?) implementation of this idea in fiction, you might be interested in my podcast The Program audio series.
- mastersummoner 5y agoI read this a year or so ago. I remember finding the vision of the Utopian future absolutely fascinating, but I always find the sort of dystopia he described happening before that unrealistic. For me at least, it's hard to imagine there not being enormous pushback before society could get nearly that bad. I'm definitely a bit of a utopianist, but in my mind the power of consumers versus profit driven business people always is cyclical. I find it much more likely that the technology to autonomously create houses, grow and harvest food, and generally automate a sane, healthy life for a person will advance significantly, and some philanthropist trillionaire will buy up vast swathes of currently uninhabited land and turn it into a utopia.