Why?

Well, I am a scientist interested in artificial intelligence, and if we are successful, then the aforementioned robots may be common in 10-20 years.
Some such robots or computer bots are doing a lot of our work today.

As a person, I would like to see our healthy lives extended manifold, and it may be possible with medical research going on now.

I am wondering if such an ideal world is possible, is it worth the trouble of scientists, medical specialists, politicians, teachers, police-officers, etc., to spend their lives striving to make such a world happen. Are the deep-down philosophies of people around the world such that such a world where we can do what we want is actually a better place than what it is now, in which 90% of the population has to spend most of their time doing things that they would rather not be doing (e.g. most service workers)? or would we just degenerate into a world full of full-time couch-potato hedonistic net surfers?

Hence the question, as to what people would do in an 'ideal' world -- is an ideal world really worth all the trouble? Or is just the act of striving to make the world a slightly better (yet less than ideal) place all that really matters?

/usr/bin/fortune: "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." (Anger in the Sky, 1943)
-- Susan Ertz (1894 - 1985) American born English Novelist

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