exactly :) Our current life was science fiction 20-30-50 years ago. Just the other day I looked at a desk phone that I have with a small video monitor on it and thought, OMG I don't realize that this was sci-fi in "The Jetsons" when I watched it as a kid not so long ago (I wish). Someone calling you and you can see him/her on the screen. WOW 

Hello Raphael,

thanks you for your feedback. I think it is very personal on how we will take the future and how each of us will adapt. Same as we use cars today. Of course I would use my car to get to the grocery store and wont walk there as that innovation saves me time and effort. But that does not mean I wont go to the gym or exercise in a different way to compensate for the fact that I am not moving as much as I would do if there were no cars. 

There are kids, sitting on the sofa with the phone in their hand and there are others who are very actively living. Again a personal choice that each one of us will have to make :) Adapt to new technology, but not fall in the trap of becoming lazy because of it. 

All the best,

Nik

Hello datawitch, I absolutely agree that this perfect world is quite boring and that is what one of the concerns are. However, how we will react to the coming future will be very personal. Some of us might be excited by it (I myself am very much, as in my day job I work towards evolving the AI and automation) others might fall into the laziness trap if the work is being done for them. 

I also agree with you on the fact that if AI or automation does the chores this will give us more time for other things, think of the moment, which inevitably will come, where even the "other more ambitious projects" you talk about, will also be automatically taken care of. Not tomorrow, not next year, but at some point in the future. And then what. 

Anyways, respect your opinion and input. This is why world is moving forward, I can say successfully. Because of people like you, who, as I say in my speech, would "Choose to grow and not step back thinking there is nothing left for us to do."

take care

Nik