Robots will take over the most menial jobs on the market, making humans turn their attention to more intellectual tasks and opening new opportunities for avid learners.
Every day, in laboratories around the world, the little critters are subjected to all manner of carefully controlled insults, from electric shocks to the induction of cancer, all in the name of research.
But when these laws are used to make the rich richer, and the powerful more powerful, then the more humble members of our society have a right to complain of injustice.
One of his most famous works, the Potato Eaters, painted in 1885 once he was back in his native Netherlands, bears witness to his concerns for the most humble subjects.
" You're humbled as a human. Let's put it that way. You go through that and you're a very little piece of something very big and very old and very dramatic."