I like to think,
    (it has to be!)
    of a cybernetic ecology
    where we are free of our labors
    and joined back to nature,
    returned to our mammal
    brothers and sisters,
    and all watched over
    by machines of loving grace.

-- Richard Brautigan (1967)

if all the resources spent in useless wars were poured into working towards this goal, we would be there for some time already