There is Limited Room in the Universe for Intelligent Beings

This is an idea of mne, that I am not too sure of - but I am sure, it has lots of promise.

I can see that two things have been going on, in the last two hundred years. Machines have gotten smarter, and people have gotten stupider. It seems like smart machines are somehow getting rid of the smart people - somehow pushing them out of the way.

More work has to be done, to see what is being done, and how this is being done.

First, I must speak of Smart Machines - beginning with the machines of the Industrial Era. Consider the factories of that era. I can remember them well. They were awesome assemblages of machines and people - that could produce large numbers of products, at a low cost The American Midwest was full of them.

The people in these places were united in their efforts to produce these products. They, and their machines, seemed supernatural. To put this another way - they were smart. And the money agreed with them, and financed them. The whole thing was called Capitalism.

What happened to these factories? The Chinese got them - who were even smarter, harder working, and better financed.

I will now switch to Computers (smart machines) where intelligence is built in - and is called Artificial Intelligence, and (with its robots) is taking much of our work away from us.

This means many people will not have good jobs, and will be forced to take what low-paying jobs they can get.