What I'm hoping for is the eradication of human middlemen.
Yes. This is something that needs a technological solution as it has been proven that, we (many) can't be trusted with some things when given the power and authority.
Blockchains and decentralized virtual machines running on blockchains are tools that allow us to build more advanced protocols that I hope to gradually displace human authority in the distant future.
Yep- it is going to get very interesting with AIs involved as I think we will discover, we aren't great at managing much.
There are pitfalls in that too, but I think they are nothing like in Terminator. There will be a lot of trial and error. And it will be a very gradual process.
Yeah, I don't see the terminator issue (at this point) but for a lot of processing jobs, an AI could potentially watch the humans operate at a transaction level for a while, and then create a line of best fit model that can do the same job at lightning speed with less variation.
A lot of white collar jobs either are or soon will be on a shaky ground.
Yep, I believe so. Manual skills will carry even more of a premium.
For a while.
I wish I was a plumber :)
A plumberjack of all trades. :)