What's life on Manhattan like?

[Y'berg]

Once we have fusion and anti-gravity, we'll finally hit a state of more easy abundance, which should make eliminating poverty only a matter of carrying out the work of distribution. The beginning of the "utopian socialist" model will take hold. We'll likely always need to extract raw resources, but once we can harness the full energy potential of matter, energy costs should become a joke.

So I think it comes down to the society and its rules. I figure most core worlds are stable and peaceful, with the more outlying worlds and fledgeling colonies being a bit more of a mix. The farther you get from the light of civilization, the more problems there are to keep control of.

It's nice and all, but take it into consideration that we can and do produce way more than say 50-70 years ago, working at least the same amount of time, while also we're comparatively much-much poorer. The rich'll hoard and do rich things, the rest are left in the gutter.

I like your optimism, but we ain't living in a nobleright universe

Well that's why I said it depends on the society. Good people use it for good, others won't. Over the next 10000 years most interstellar societies will avoid poverty and most disease. Society will literally divulge between two main avenues, I only use this analogy in general terms, but people will either be like the Federation, or wind up like the Borg. In the run up to that, it will look more like Atreides vs Harkonnan. These are highly accurate depictions of the future.

With gravity controlled fusion, we could power the whole planet many times over and eliminate most supply and demand problems. The only major issue will be getting the fuel and distributing it.

We're just as likely to evol e into Eloi and Morlocks. Or into The Culture

[The Milk of Kauket]