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I think you're wrong. Humanity won't destroy the golden goose. The next Aaron Swartz will release it to the public, whether that's distributing the software to everyone, or finding a way to freely build/distribute high-level robotics.

Just as Prometheus brought fire to the humans, someone will find a way to prevent the future from being locked away. Once you achieve the necessary level of automation, you only need one fabricator that can build the next.

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You are ignoring the cost of acquiring resources. Robots will run society before the problem of unlimited energy is solved.

Enough sunlight hits earth every 5 minutes to power all of civilization for a year. The energy is unlimited, the challenge is collection.

You might like this: The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-question/

One of my favorites! I won't spoil the ending...

All I need to do is shut down one of the robot overlords, root it, and flash it with Cyanogenmod. I don't need much in the way of resources to do that.

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