It seems miraculous that just as humanity is hitting a breaking point of declining population, technology rushes in to solve the problem. However, the obvious solution of simply making more babies is not one technology can solve; that’s societal. Women make good office workers so business wants them. Femininity, motherhood, gets in the way of that so the powers-that-be have repressed it. To encourage families requires encouraging customs, culture & tradition, and all of those things are going the wrong direction. The solution is to replace the productivity that a lack of people causes, and what is it that technology is bringing us in the nick of time? Robots.
Declining productivity due to declining population is an existential threat to society but robots will fix it. With robots, business will have another cheaper source of mindless drones, which will leave women alone to go back to their natural state of femininity. The decline of personal relationships is also an existential threat to humanity and robots will fix that too by being substitute partners, both emotionally & physically. The world that’s coming will be unrecognizable to how life used to be, as life now would be to the Romans, except this time it’s only going to take 2 decades rather than 2 millennia.
