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by bamboozled 770 days ago
I think actual real life is so complicated that we can't really guess what specific technological advancements will rocket us into silicon valley imagined utopia, we speculate but we don't have any way of accurately predicting this.

Will it be the self-driving car, humanoid robots, chat bots, Google search with adsense (tm)? Hard to say. Each new thing brings some positives and negatives but it really seems the bad has an uncanny ability to keep up with the good most of the time.

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I can confidently predict that no technological advancement will bring us into that utopia. With our current level of tech, we could easily be there now. At this point we don't need engineering technology, we need social/political/economic reform.
You're likely correct :)
We have the tech for decades, we lack the social and political decisions