"I don't see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,"
"In the next kind of couple of decades, I believe there will be millions of people living in space,"
"So 10,000 years ago, or whenever it was, somebody invented the plough, and we all got richer.... I'm talking about all of civilization, these tools increase our abundance, and that pattern will continue."
An optimistic perspective envisions AI and space technologies driving civilizational abundance rather than collapse. Robots are expected to handle routine tasks such as commuting by 2045, reducing human labor burdens. Millions of people are predicted to live in space within a few decades, primarily by choice, while robots will perform surface work on the Moon and elsewhere when cost-effective. Historical invention-driven prosperity, exemplified by the plough, is presented as evidence that technological tools increase abundance. Similar forecasts anticipate graduates working remotely from off-Earth locations within the coming decade.
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