Well the trend of technology and new business models making human labor human redundant isn't going away.
Mankind's societies will either devise social contracts to respond fairly to this development or those societies will sooner or later collapse.
No police state can really last for very long if it cannot also support its prisoners.
Its going to be a rocky century for labor/managment issues, I suspect.
I can easily see armies of the have nots, the unemployed and unemployables rioting to get their share of the world's wealth, and I can certainly see the HAVES trying to stop that transfer of wealth.
Mankind might have 21st century techology going for it.
But as it regards advances in the social sciences, we're still basically in the mid 19th century
Mankind's societies will either devise social contracts to respond fairly to this development or those societies will sooner or later collapse.
No police state can really last for very long if it cannot also support its prisoners.
Its going to be a rocky century for labor/managment issues, I suspect.
I can easily see armies of the have nots, the unemployed and unemployables rioting to get their share of the world's wealth, and I can certainly see the HAVES trying to stop that transfer of wealth.
Mankind might have 21st century techology going for it.
But as it regards advances in the social sciences, we're still basically in the mid 19th century