Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Luckily, we're not employed as oracles, so there's no need for us to try to predict the future. Attempting to do so will fail anyway.

But since this is what has happened in every change of production in human history up until this point, I see no reason why the same shouldn't happen this time.
Each change has also brought significant changes to society. The change going from industry to service is the smallest of them and the easiest one to predict as well.

That's the thing we're talking about. Will things solve themselves? Yes, eventually. But the lack of clear goals means that you'll need to do it through experience. Experience in these cases means a bucket load of conflicts.

To follow up on what PJ said. There's certainly nothing surprising if the current model of capitalism falls, it's from the 1930-ties (Fordism) if you stretch it a bit. But its fall will not be buissness as usual for those who experience it, even if those living in 2200 sees it that way through the historical lens.