[Livia]

You talk about technology and development like it's some kind of benevolent legacy. What it actually is, is a way to make some people very rich. Humans aren't really interested in sharing their wealth or we'd have done it by now. And most people would object to sharing their bit. I don't think standing on the shoulders of giants means we don't have to work for a living any more. Who's going to develop the technology? You know how fast it moves... or are we going to allow the technology to be smart enough to reproduce and improve itself? Which is just scary. There are many other jobs too that require a human being whom technology can't replace. Are we going to force those people to work while the rest of humanity sit on their tuchas?

I think the best we can hope from technology for the future is that it could give people more leisure time... but that doesn't seem to have happened so far. Humans need to work, they need to build and develop.