Ray Kurzweil: Technology will let us fully realize our humanity
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/27/1096148/ray-kurzweil-futurist-ai-medicine-advances-freedom/

"By freeing us from the struggle to meet the most basic needs, technology will serve our deepest human aspirations to learn, create, and connect."

"As superhuman AI makes most goods and services so abundant as to be almost free, the need to structure our lives around jobs will fade away."

"And material abundance will ease economic pressures and afford families the quality time together they've long yearned for."

Haha, definitely a techno-optimist. But I still don't get this AI -> material abundance thing.