If we don't have millions of robots in space, at least collecting energy and exploring, we still have lots and lots to do, many things can still be improved.
Once we do have AI and robotics in the reach of programmers then I bet we haven't even began to realize all the things we don't have now. I am a contrarian in that if computers added more work then so will robots, there will be more to do because there is more you can accomplish and unseen needs will arise. People could build companies and products almost individually like software today. When you lower the groupthink and bureaucracy around ideas/innovation, let individuals run with it, then it always opens up.
We could still do electric highways (interstate system for electric cars), drones are just getting started, ai/self driving or automated function free us up to do many other things, medicine/health advancements, virtual worlds that really improve your life, pipes that don't degrade, water desalinization, solar, we still need massive jumps in broadband and new ways to send/store/archive data (always will be a problem) and many many more.
We don't even really know the bottom of the ocean or the inside of the planet we live on really, robots will help us in that as well. So much to still explore, learn and innovate on.
Another Musk or Tesla could come along and open up ideas we had no idea were possible spawning all kinds of innovation and quality of life improvements.
Once we do have AI and robotics in the reach of programmers then I bet we haven't even began to realize all the things we don't have now. I am a contrarian in that if computers added more work then so will robots, there will be more to do because there is more you can accomplish and unseen needs will arise. People could build companies and products almost individually like software today. When you lower the groupthink and bureaucracy around ideas/innovation, let individuals run with it, then it always opens up.
We could still do electric highways (interstate system for electric cars), drones are just getting started, ai/self driving or automated function free us up to do many other things, medicine/health advancements, virtual worlds that really improve your life, pipes that don't degrade, water desalinization, solar, we still need massive jumps in broadband and new ways to send/store/archive data (always will be a problem) and many many more.
We don't even really know the bottom of the ocean or the inside of the planet we live on really, robots will help us in that as well. So much to still explore, learn and innovate on.
Another Musk or Tesla could come along and open up ideas we had no idea were possible spawning all kinds of innovation and quality of life improvements.