IMO "AI" and Robotics will completely destroy any chance of this happening. Imagine armies of robots working 24/7 strip mining everything, logging everything,

IMO "AI" and Robotics will completely destroy any chance of this happening. Imagine armies of robots working 24/7 strip mining everything, logging everything, way faster and way smarter than people ever could. This is what we're making, this is what capitalism will absolutely love. There is no sign of any regulation here from governments, they will want it even more, "GDP! GDP! GDP!". I was really hopefully we'd actually get to a nice place, it would be rough with climate change, but there would be less people and we'd look back on the 21st century with disdain and try live more simple lives, slower lives, it looks like we're going to try 100x everything instead. If we get to the stage where people do live much longer, this will be the next issue, people never dying and the Earth basically filling up. It will be the next drama we can obsess over :) I might be wrong, maybe we'll start mining asteroids or maybe the economy will collapse quick enough the singularity will be cancelled due to lack of demand (funny I know). It's very hard to say, but I hope I'm wrong and you're right!