I used to be able to daydream and probe the moral implications that things like the Singularity carry with it, but the last few years I've immersed myself in studying recent world geopolitics and systems of authority we're forced to live under and I can't even pretend to think that mankinds future will be high tech. We've passed the point of no return on a lot of ecological fronts and so much of the populace have given into the behavioral controls society saturates them with, that by the time we realize we need to change our priorities, those with money and power will be firmly entrenched and free to fight over the last of our potable water, fossil fuel and arable land (using us for the ugly work). Things that should have been discussed in vast detail in public forums with government support regarding things like ethics in our modern society and what kind of world we want to live in, wont ever happen. Everything is political theater now. We already produce enough food to feed the entire planet adequately. The only things stopping that from happening are monied interests, logistics (which is very solvable) and apathy. Profit is the new morality. people starve while farming land for companies that ship the food out of the locality. The government pays corporate farms to destroy excess crops so that the market doesn't become saturated, lowering profit margins. Small nations are strong armed into letting multinationals privitize their water rights in exchange for things like delaying interest payments on manipulative loans. the IMF and World Bank punish countries for allowing peasant farmers to operate outside of the Globalism paradigm and dare to refuse GMOs or seeds from Monsanto.
If we see any intelligent robots in the future they will have Raytheon logos, pain rays (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System), and rights current police would drool over.
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