ABC, you write:
We are still far from the moment when the disappearance of resources will have made industrial society disappear.
Certainly, from the point of view of resources, but as you later specify, it is growth that is threatened and therefore the foundation of our societal system. Indeed, it is only secondarily that concrete wealth is produced, the main goal being the creation of abstract value for cumulative purposes: without this "engine", the rest stops since it has no raison d'être.
Further:
This is an Amha fantasy. Even if you think of machines as a "species" (which is very questionable), this "species" appeared, evolved, and was selected by humans, for humans, and to do only things useful to humans. humans. They have no ability to survive in the natural environment simply because they are not made for it, and without humans, they have no interest or ability and would disappear with them.
Not a fantasy, but a speculation not without foundation. This is only true at this time and without taking into account the extraordinary addition in terms of capabilities that represents the AI. Consider that AI becomes capable of autonomous learning from its own experience. And even without anticipating so boldly, many people depend more on machines than vice versa; it is to such an extent that machine reasoning has become an integral part of human functioning. Not long ago, computers were compared to the human brain, now it is the latter that describes itself as a kind of computer ...
Our friend
Izentrop brings water to my mill by specifying that it is in an additional technology that resides the solutions generated by this same technology: can we push the blindness further? I see in it the sign of the possible and logical triumph of the machine: it has already secreted the ideology / religion which consolidates it, progress * ...
* This perfectly neutral term would logically require a transitive form which specifies its meaning (we can speak of the progress of a pathology
), his elusion is revealing here.