&gt; And this desire won&#x27;t go away.<p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s clear at all. I think the widespread view that society is going to keep looking more or less like the present but with self driving cars is complete folly. Technology is going to -- among other things -- destroy scarcity, erase language barriers, end warfare, conquer disease and educate the masses.  The societal changes coming are bigger than industrialization, maybe bigger than moving from hunter gatherers to agriculture.<p>&gt; Imagine, the solar system would be a more harmonious place if everyone with rather strong ideas about how the world should be run could simply go start their own world to be run that way.<p>That doesn&#x27;t sound very harmonious at all. That sounds like institutionalizing ignorance as an organizing principle and seems like something intelligent society would move away from.