If technology were to reach its logical extreme the cost to produce mankind’s basic needs of food, shelter, transportation and medical services would be greatly minimized. Work as we know it would become obsolete and we would become liberated to pursue the top of Maslow’s hierarchy - self-actualization.
"And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused."