Hi guys, I am new at the forum
this particoular topic catches my attention as I am an admirer of the Zeitgeist movement (http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/ for who is not familiar with it) and there is a lot of talking on robots around the resource based economy that the movement promotes.
Have you ever consider the fact that the advanced developement of robots as the supermachines that will replace human labor would be perfect to satisfy the basic needs of life and eliminate dependence from work?
Think of food, clothes and shelters that robots could make to perfection without the need to rest... It is true that there isn`t the need of having as much engineers to manage the robots as the labourers that are being replaced, but if the society will be structured so that there will be more engineers working just few hours a day there will be space to absorb everyone in and we will all benefit of the free time we will have....