Solarpunk

is this thing on?

YES!

We actually, currently, have all the tech required to do it. I actually have the opinion that we had it since the 90s if we had been willing to adapt our lifestyles to easily automatisable productions.

I have studied CS and robotics for that very goal. In my 20 years of professional experience, I have become convinced that there are very few technical challenges out there. The tech can help by just making easier what is already doable in terms of automation.

I remain convinced that the first industrial country that would start an "Apollo program to free us from the toil of labor" would be there within 10 years.

We are not there yet because the last 5% of the production line to automate is often the most costly to do, but once you reached 100% automation, that's a totally different world you are in.

Right now, incentives are set up to go in the opposite direction: you don't want your job automated, you have an interest in resisting that, often by adding bullshit layers to this job for the only purpose of making automation unlikely. If instead you gave e.g. 10 less years of work before retirement to anyone who automates their job, I am sure that we would be there extremely quickly.

I am at a point in life where I am able to devote ~20% of my work time to go towards that goal. Please feel free to contact me if you have similar goals. I want to see that in my lifetime, let's work towards it!