I fear this is exactly correct. Age of abundance will come but not until after severe pain while the world adjusts.
The Agricultural Revolution worked out great for us, but it sucked for people at the time, who had to work much harder than their nomadic ancestors, with more diseases.
The Industrial Revolution worked out great for us, but it sucked for people at the time, who worked grueling factory jobs and slept in filthy tenements, a downgrade from their ancestors’ lives on the farm.
It makes you think…
With all our anxiety and loneliness and polarization and institutional decay, are we the people living during the Digital Revolution, who it sucks for, before it eventually becomes a net positive for people of the future?
Should we be worried that we’re also the people who will live through an AI Revolution that’s just getting started?