Imagine a time in the near future where all work is done by automation, by machines who could think faster and work faster than any human.  What if in this world all dangerous work, all tedious work, all diagnostic, corrective, everything is done more efficiently by robotics using artificial intelligent agents?

Imagine there is no work needed by humans, other than to ask their automated world for the continued sustenance, entertainment and recreation desired?

What would become of wealth?  Why would it matter?  Would we have a completely egalitarian society where everyone could pursue their creative potential, their sports, their entertainment, so the only winners and losers would be found in games we play?

Or would we find ourselves in battle for dominance and wealth over others which would be ultimately fruitless, because another bigger, badder machine could always be envisioned and come to pass through the availability of an ever-growing intelligence?

Would this ever-growing intelligence continue to find us interesting enough to continue to support our ambitions and liberties, or would it find us superfluous to a successfully run and optimized Earth?

These machines can only be a reflection of ourselves, for what they have learned is everything we have ever discovered and learned, all available all the time and all at once.  So then, the question it seems, is what have we learned?  What have we made available to these machines?  For is this not the soul of humanity?  Is it good, is it bad, is it creative and loving or waring and greedy?  Certainly all of these things.

So what will we ask?