Consumers say they don’t want to be tracked, but in fact they keep feeding the machine with their data, because they want to claim their benefits. - Kevin Kelly

When a child asks an endless string of “Why?” questions, the smartest reply is “I don’t know, what do you think?”

Your goal is to be able to say
on the day before you die
that you have fully become yourself.

When robots and automation do our most basic work, making it relatively easy for us to be fed, clothed, and sheltered, then we are free to ask, “What are humans for?” Industrialization did more than just extend the average human lifespan. It led a greater percentage of the population to decide that humans were meant to be ballerinas, full-time musicians, mathematicians, athletes, fashion designers, yoga masters, fan-fiction authors, and folks with one-of-a-kind titles on their business cards. With the help of our machines, we could take up these roles — but, of course, over time the machines will do these as well. We’ll then be empowered to dream up yet more answers to the question “What should we do?” It will be many generations before a robot can answer that.