Kurzweil himself has pegged the date when AIs will do everything better than humans at 2029.29 (As explained in Abundance, his predictions are based … - Peter Diamandis

the four billion people occupying the lowest strata of the economic pyramid, the so-called bottom billion, had lately become a viable economic market.

I don't care about the wealth gap per se, if there are trillionaires living on Mars, as long as the floor has risen to the point that every man, woman, and child has access to all the food, water, energy, and health care. I would rather live in that world than a world in the past.

Technically, flow is defined as an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best. And you’ve probably had some experience with this state. If you’ve ever lost an afternoon to a great conversation or become so involved in a work project that all else was forgotten, then you’ve tasted the experience. Flow describes these moments of total absorption, when we become so focused on the task at hand that everything else falls away. Action and awareness merge. Time flies. Self vanishes. All aspects of performance — mental and physical — go through the roof.