1 – Star Trek (TV series) – Everything is fine, things are taken care of, and civilization is advanced. Smart people create more smart people.

2 – Idiocracy (Movie) – Everyone is really stupid, people talk mostly in several versions of slang, with horrible accents, the "average" intelligence that currently exists will be that of a genius in the future. Stupid people reproduce at an accelerated rate and smart people are breed-ed out of existence.

Here is a link / address to a page explaining the movie Idiocracy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

In my mind our future is going to be like this movie. Look around, people are getting dumber and dumber; all society does is promote stupidity, which continues to spread like wildfire.

Most importantly in all this… People would need to realise that you can't just go on having big families; until we reach other planets like our own or we start terraforming then families need to get smaller otherwise Mr Baker would always run out before lunch time and most people would be going around in a shaggy beau font.

Unfortunately we are not ready for this because people are still bickering about small things that occurred years ago to their heritage. We are only held back by ourselves from doing these great things and most people are still driven by their basic animal instincts.

Greed drives a lot of people currently, and we still have battles over land and beliefs. Once we begin accepting each other, then we will all be able to work successfully side by side. I believe we are getting closer to this eventual conclusion but are still far away from it. Unless of course some dramatic event occurs (i.e. we are forced to come together as a race against some outside entity).

Only then will the drive of the human race show itself and we’ll be able to accomplish a lot more than we have already.

Someone said “people wouldn’t be interested in “menial jobs”. I would like to add, you’re probably right. But, only in some ways. That is, if you assume that society and technology looks like it does today. Which, if you have Replicators, chances are technological advances would be relevant with these tasks.

In other words, who says menial jobs will be done by humans? Secondly, humans may not have to do menial jobs all the time, if they follow some of the basic rules and laws that would apply to that particular society. Most of the tasks that most humans do now, would be removed by technology, so then we’d be up to higher purpose of life. So, the only real value to life at that point would be to work at something you like to do, for sake of being productive. Imagine if you had all day to work on yourself, you probably wouldn’t turn to drugs to just escape reality, because, reality would actually be very cool. You’re fed, you have a place to sleep, so what’s next. The domino effect.

Though, we could end up with unproductive people, but that would ethical dilemma for very few. If you don’t have to work all day at a menial job, etc, and you could own a ten thousand dollar item, without having to fork over ten thousand dollars, there no desire to steal, etc. You have everything you need. We could, feasibly spend more time raising a child to want and desire to be a part of Life, even the federation to travel the stars? In other words, there would be nothing to bitch about and opportunity would always be there for everyone.

However, let’s not forget the idea of being able to “qualify” for certain jobs as well. Then, you’d have a bit of caste system, but not really, because you still can have xxx number of people to qualify for jobs. As far as fixing things and maintaining all this wonderful technology, there is solution for that as well. The idea being…

If the replicator produces all the things you desire, you’re going to want to fix it. Everyone could qualify for that job at different levels. Some people would qualify for diagnostics, some at maintenance and others at engineering, etc. If it is the source of ones ability to have things that we normally wouldn’t have access to, you’re gonna want to fix it.

If all people have replicators it wouldnt matter if you were rich or not.
Because cash would become uselss in the counterfiet sense.

I remmber spending $3000 for 128k in the early 1980′s.. ram ..
I even remeber spending $8000 for a 10meg HD.

I recently bought 8gig ram for $19.
I recently boguht multi-terrabyte for very little.

Point being,…. dont ever say it cant be done, its only a matter of time.

Even medical and other, we are doing things today in nearly all areass that people of our past would litterally consider us either godlike or sataniclike.

Godlike in that we can save lives that wwas impossible before.
Satanlike in that we are doing today the very things that Hitler himself was trying in the camps (thoguh maybe more humanly).