[JimRed]

Small items will be made right in the home using a desktop assembler, imagine a very, very advanced 3D printer able to make everything from medicine and tools to the family dinner.

Star Trek, The Next Generation, replicator tech.

[Bobalu]

Yes, and one day the replicators will be able to replicate themselves... so the tech will be so cheap it will almost be free.

It will be the very creative who will become the superstars in the world of 2050. They will create new tasks for the automated machinery to carry out. They will create everything from new entertainment to new vehicles.. and every other thing that will be possible.

Automation is an amplifier for the human mind and body. What now takes a million workers to do, a single person will be able to have done for him. A single person could create a city or dig a canal or whatever.

Everything will quickly trend toward zero cost in a fully automated world. The only real limits are raw materials and energy.