So much more could have been done with this article:

http://hyperionaletheia.com/2012/09/28/going-the-way-of-the-dinosaur/



And our onward automation of the ALL has resulted in the loss of gainful, meaningful employment. (But what if that is truly a desirable outcome? What if that produces a new profound sense of what should be our priorities? A real new world ordering?) Globally, 2B are in search of work. Those jobs are not coming back. And more are on the road to extinction.



The neuro oncologist performs surgeries, excising a brain tumor, at the computer screen, guiding a robotic arm. How long before modern medicine is simply a conveyor belt, with the patient passing from the diagnostic (MRI/CT) to the full robotic surgeon. Engineers are ever increasingly replaced by advanced CAD designs. Drones and new robotic land weaponry (Talon, SWORDS) are in the air and on the march. Foxxconn is shedding the humans, more advanced manufacturing robotics. Automated press 1, press 2, – Siri speaks.



Will our legacy be that of our self maintaining, self programmable progeny…our new children…our machines?



The End of Work, the End of Money rapidly approaches. Where the old can becomes the new. The new dawn, the new coming, certainly could be glorious. Or not.



If global warming was taken seriously, profoundly, we would be rethinking everything from energy, to agriculture, how we build homes (micro units-habitats) to transportation, to education and beyond.



Developing self-sustaining homesteads. Planting our own gardens. Systems of barter and exchange. A more egalitarian system of any needed monetization. A new humanism that we are all in this together.



What type of education should we be teaching? Maybe teaching our sons how to grow things, or to fish? How to respect the chicken who lays the egg you will use for your nourishment?



Where should “we” be migrating to? Perhaps moderate climates reducing our need for heat or air conditioning.



What type of reorientation is necessary that focuses on the inputs, the consumption before it is consumed rather than the recycling? Where are the big thinkers that would question the need for a concept of recycling?



Where are the big thinkers that can conceptualize a world where work has no relevance? No revered status, no definition of self-worth. Indeed, this too was the original sin, the original perversion. It never was intended so. The birth of Masters and Slaves.



If we faced global warming in a profound way we may find that the old ways of life would become new. The problem is we have Masters that embrace a dystopian world of have and have nots. As an old economics professor once told me if you are the best poker layer and have the best poker hand, if you do not throw a few hands it is going to be an early evening.



All masters do eventually become slaves.



I would like to see one of these honored economists on these pages talk about how each individual's wealth in a country makes the country. The individual micro combustions of smaller transactions is what creates an overall collective roaring economic engine. In addition, everything from macro monetary policy to taxation to redistribution all depends on something to distribute at the great majority.



If middle classes throughout the western world are being decimated meanwhile in China/India have really failed to take root (most still live in abject poverty) eventually the music stops.



Where are these leading economists in developing a more rational model for global sustainability (micro green homes/agriculture) and what ever still needs are driven by monetization, a more egalitarian system of distribution?