purple stripped kitchen with a toaster shaped like a teddy bear, stuffing his face with cocaine and chocolate cake would somehow be bred out of humanity? That peoples experience will limit them to one set of ideas when it comes to these things and hence either everyone will have the purple and black drug kitchen or no one at all as desire itself has become uniform? Then it quickly starts to sound like the sort of idea that I would greatly oppose. I dont think thats what they have in mind, I think the venus lot are honest and well intentioned, but I think that machines cant decide everything, there are matters that are beyond them, and at some point a human being is going to have to step in and make a call on a lot of these sort of issues im bringing up, who will that person be? And how do you get past that without entering into yet another dictatorship or creating some sort of clone-like society where people dont have vastly different tastes and ideals in the first place? The guy mentions that while what he sugests sounds very idyllic its actually all based on hard facts and number crunching. But surely believing that so much of human society, its direction, its desires etc can be broken down to statistics and somehow proccessed to some sort of optimal balance where everyone is happy by a computer is in itself an idyllic notion, and at some point