Awesome blog post!
That idea of self driving cars how it would reduce the interactions we have with police was very clever. And the things you said about reducing poverty. I sort of got a moment of realization with the Steem Blockchain back in January this year how I noticed I could just take a quick photo and someone almost instantly gave me value back. That was a big paradigm shift for me how this will truly change how people see things.
That also made me realize how it must almost be impossible to be poor in the world that is coming. Since a person can create a piece of content. Send it to the cloud. And someone will value it. And then that person can go buy food or whatever. This was something that wasn't even in a person's mind in 2015. Or that you would be able to upload a regular vlog and 40 minutes later someone gives you 100 dollars as we have seen with DTube.
The other thing that I see is how we will have Trillionaires on Earth in the future. And when stuff also get's cheaper to produce just having 1 Trillionaire will create insane trickle down effects in value people have access to. The concept of be able to generate new value with the computers we use is very fascinating. Since it has happened so fast that we don't remember how it used to be. This means that we also will be able to work when we are getting older since our work will become easier to do. And that will also give us more free time to consider stuff outside of survival.
One big potential danger that I see is if people try to design their life with just the Intellect. Since the Intellect is a surgeon dissect tool. It always wants to slice up stuff into more smaller parts. It tries to understand a Flower by cutting it down into a million pieces. It cannot understand life. If people just use their Intellect for all of life then they may start to think Intellect is Life. And that can cause some big problems in the future. But if we empower people a lot and give them lots of value and love then we may be able to avoid a massive potential disaster.