Artificial general intelligence, Elon Musk says it promises universal high income.
Flynn in Tron Legacy (2010) is even more optimstic: "Disease? History! Science, philosophy! Every idea man has ever had about the universe up for grabs!" Biodigital Jazz, man.
The Matrix (1999) Agent Smith monologue: "...But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You've had your time. The future is *our* world, Morpheus. The future is our time."
He is talking about mousetopia.
What do we do when we no longer need to fight for survival?
I shopped for a bow tie once, for my wedding, before eventually ended up having my fiance at the time made one for me. The salesman was like, who looks for an actual bow tie these days, all they sale are regular neckties and clip on fake bow ties. He said only the sort of person who likes to make life difficult would want a real bowtie, the type that drives stick shifts.
"Her soul is so light after all the tears she has shed that we can easily bear her up to Paradise.
Your soul is so weighed down with stones it is too heavy to lift."