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Originally Posted by PullMyFinger
Most people are going to have to go back to the land IMO. Instead of using chemicals to kill weeds we will have plenty of manpower to pull them, hoe them, cut them. Of course robots could do that too...
But I see a future of far less humans on the Earth and mostly living in smaller communities growing a lot of their own food and taking more time for the important things in life.
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I could see it playing out sort of like the Davos WEF 2030 prediction (though I think it's more like a 2045 future):
Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better
Specifically, I refer to this section (and more specifically the bolded part):
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My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took over big parts of our jobs. Those who got upset with the political system and turned against it. They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages.
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If our cities do become places of zero privacy, zero private property, zero work -- if some of the predictions in this little piece come true -- I will certainly want to be one of those living in one of the little self-supplying communities, no question.