♦   3   ♦How Change Will Affect Us Personally and Why Our Choices Matter

Imagine a future in which we are able to live healthy, productive lives though jobs no longer exist. We have comfortable homes, in which we can “print” all of the food we need as well as our electronics and household amenities. When we need to go anywhere, we click on a phone application, and a driverless car shows up to take us to our destination. I am talking about an era of almost unlimited energy, food, education, and health care in which we have all of the material things we need.

Another way of looking at this is as a future of massive unemployment, in which the jobs of doctors, lawyers, waiters, accountants, construction workers, and practically every other kind of ...

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