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Never any shortage of breathless techno-hubris.
"But I also think Krugman is underestimating the likely consequences of the incredible advances that scientists have made in just the last ten or fifteen years in understanding and manipulating the building blocks of both matter and life itself. Synthetic biology and nanotechnology, alone, will offer humanity almost unlimited power to rebuild nature and the physical world."
Nuclear power will be too cheap to meter!
You'll be taking vacations on the Moon!
There is a Flying Car in your future!
Robots and automation will produce the twenty-hour work week!