It would however, take ages and ages to push through all the ethics arguments,
insurance, and the people scared of tecno-telepathy.
Which is basically the topic of this thread. We already have the technology to create human/animal hybrids and chimeras. We already have the technology to to build the bionic man. We already have the technology to build a moonbase, to eliminate aging as a cause of death, and so much else. We're within single digits of years of reasonable funded research of global telepathic communication, humanoid robots capable of passing the turing test, and again...
so much else. We can probably have a post-scarcity world before the end of the decade if we really wanted to.
...but...
People are so rooted in the past, so scared of technology, so fixed in their worldview that these things we're talking about a "super futuristic" and "won't happen in their lifetime, if ever" even though some of this stuff is decades old.
Here in the present we're being held back by the inability of people alive today to come to terms with technology that's already decades old. It only took
9 years between
deciding to put a man on the moon and
doing it. And yet even now, 40 years later there are still people who insist that it never happened because they can't overcome the worldview that such things are "impossible."
Will "old people" of the future still be technophobic? Look around. The human race is
constantly being held back by limiting beliefs and inability to come to terms with what has already been accomplished.
When I simply look at the puzzle pieces forming around me today, and see where they're leading...I ask myself if when I teleport to Alpha Centauri and make out with a robot without noticing it's a robot, then go a a live pvp zone and shoot people with real laser guns instead of playing laser tag because we can easily just reconstruct our bodies at the push of a button...do I think there will people who have a difficult time adjusting to all that? Yeah, I think maybe there will be. And yet I read that and I'm embarrassed to write it because for all I know people in the future would
laugh at such a ridiculous and stupidly low tech thing as laser guns.
1903, first human flight.
1969, first man on the moon.
When the Wright brothers flew there were people who didn't believe such a thing was possible, and yet some of those people lived to see Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
Do you have any idea what kind of shock the future may bring?
You may see things in your lifetime that we, right now, are
unable to conceive of.