The economic problem that haunted our ancestors, that of making the economic pie large enough for everyone to live on, will fade away, and three new problems will emerge to take its place. First, the problem of inequality, of working out how to share this economic prosperity with everyone in society. Second, the problem of political power, of determining who gets to control the technologies responsible for this prosperity and on what terms. And third, the problem of meaning, of figuring out how to use this prosperity not just to live without work but to live well.
