My very far future prediction is that either: A. We retreat in the comfy matrix whilst we let robots rule the roost. If the matrix could simulate.. say.. Star

My very far future prediction is that either: A. We retreat in the comfy matrix whilst we let robots rule the roost. If the matrix could simulate.. say.. Star Trek style exploration for you in a more interesting, comfortable and challenging way than reality, why would you want the watered down real version? B. We digitize ourselves, but (most of us) prefer reality. To travel to a different world you get beamed over, into a vat-grown android body. Human bodies are much too fragile for long distance space travel. Why add massive amounts of extra required resources (cryo-G couches, extra fuel due to those couches, bigger ship for those couches, redundancy, etc.) when you can just launch a robotic factory at much higher Gs, land (always perilous), let it bootstrap itself into a forward base, vat-grow a couple of android bodies and then you get to beam into the frontier :) For the not-so-far future I see us putting a few bases on the moon and a very scrappy base on Mars, all manned by warm-blooded humans.