I don't see it happening soon enough for a whole bunch of reasons. The suppression of nanotech development for an "ultimate" solution, the current VC, IPO etc.

I don't see it happening soon enough for a whole bunch of reasons. The suppression of nanotech development for an "ultimate" solution, the current VC, IPO etc. situation which is anything but hardware friendly, in sharp contrast to the, oh, pre-mid-90s or so, to just how darn hard this stuff is. My mother was a RN, my father managed the business affairs of a lot of doctors, one of which was his primary hunting partner, my youngest parent is almost 80, this is not stuff you can automate now at any level beyond say lab work, and I don't see that changing in time. I, at least, and not "crying out that automation and software are going to make everyone redundant" prior to some nanotech utopia, which is some years out from even achieving the first levels of Drexler style nanotech.