As world fertility rates decline, Kevin Kelly offers his utopian vision of a future defined by an “Economic Handoff” where the world of “the Born” (humans) will coexist with, and rely on the productivity and consumption generated by, the world of “the Made” (bots):
The purpose of handing the economy off to the synths is so that we can do the kinds of tasks that every human would wake up in the morning eager to do. There should not be any human doing a task they find a waste of their talent. If it is a job where productivity matters, a human should not be doing it. Productivity is for robots. Humans should be doing the jobs where inefficiency reigns – art, exploration, invention, innovation, small talk, adventure, companionship. All the productive chores should be handled by the billions of AIs we make.