Comment by fireandice90 on Look for the Next Tech Gold Rush? · 2014-07-24T01:29:04.601Z · LW · GW

what is status in a world thats moved out of the age of scarcity that humans have been in since existence?

I really don't think there will be any kind of status except maybe politics. How can you be certain that in a society of plenty "there is a limited amount of status"? No society has ever been there before.

To your first point, I agree. Comparing the past to the future, saying well we weren't right about telecommunting's consequences so we definitely cant now be correct about a different technologies consequences is silly.