Human ingenuity

Essay... Hmm...thought about the benefits of self replicating, utility bots that would manage to not only learn in time from its environment (by way of evolution), but also the ability to impact to aid a particular civilisation. Seems, of course, one of many abundant much talked about dangers here...lifting a bit from another science fiction writer, supposing greater dependencies on robots to do the sorts of works that become more and more physically, intellectually challenging, what should happen if systemic technological collapse ensues. It seems already something of threshold has been imagined. Significant electro magnetic disruptions, for instance, in nature could cause enough catastrophe if globalized here...and we aren't talking just in the sense of disruptions to transport and communications networks but likewise, chemical/nuclear/biological/what not industries management collapse leading to significant environmental catastrophes, but if technological collapse is self evident in some manner where recovery is to too long in coming what should result of peoples that scarcely know how to do much for themselves without some manner of technology aiding them?! In a way while I grimace at the idea of having to reinvent the wheel, perhaps, at times there is something fruitful of this experience when and where ever it is provided as something of life lesson. The idea of furthered emancipation in never having to repeat something learned could certainly have its pitfalls, civilisations it seems in history were born in areas not where environment perfectly provided for every human need without need of creative drive to invent or intellectual ingenuity, but neither in restricting so harshly the tools that could be used in design for survival. While the potential aid of robotics could be of aid, one wonders as to the nature of future social philosophy. Certainly it seems if landed alone on a planet, I could scarcely imagine alone being resourceful enough to be able to handle and harvest in the same collective capacity resources and materials and manufacture goods in the highest orders that we think of today even, but in the future technological design will be permitting of this, and maybe even one shouldn't ignorantly act at the behest of intelligent machinery that aids in providing here...how should human comprehension and intelligence exist when bounded by rudiments at a base level described mostly on sheer survival with nothing of profit made otherwise generally speaking. The concept of advancement it seems in historical analysis is such that survival alone may not lead to conditions of technological ingenuity when survival decision pathways themselves lead not to the conditions necessary for enough exploration, curiosity...this is to say a polar bear may make a wonderful living doing what it does in culmination to many attributes coexisting in relation to environment, but this hadn't necessarily meant that the bear need be so much smarter then next generation round to survive, especially when decision possibilities are more narrow and restricted with respect to survival odds regarding such pathways. At present then one finds given the extent of possible knowledge base that exists, conceptually 'master of none', or 'master of somethings' could apply but in the least it would be harder to affirm 'master of much'. Landing on this barren planet, a human find him/herself in such likely position in the future. He/She alone might through technological aids be able to resourcefully find basic materials, could possibly replicate machinery (again with technological aids already in tote), but if having absolutely nothing but a few matches and a knife...well, it would be back to the stone ages, until information and technological recovery, or rescue could be had.