The next generation of homes, decades from now, will be able to have advanced levels of automation, and self sufficiency. Energy will be generated from solar panels, wind mills, etc The software running the systems will exhibit true intelligence, the house will be truly smart. But it is what is possible not just in terms of simple automated appliance, but advanced manufacturing capabilities that is of interest.
Eventually mastery of synthetic biology will allow ageless, maintenance free, self sufficient, biological machinery in any shape including a humanoid shape. This allows for all sorts of elaborate designs to be manifested physically. These entities would be able to accomplish any maintenance or clean up a human can, and would look like servants from ages past. Such biological androids could also all be controlled by the central control system, and could be made to engage in any physical activity humans engage in, being but a fraction of the system's time, and using bodies as remote controlled drones, there would be no ethical wrong in any activity done with or to such bodies. On top of that they could be remotely controlled or guided by others over an internet connection, allowing for interaction with physical avatars, bodies, that would be the property of the owner of the house.
Humans may eventually carry such avatars around to be able to engage on arbitrary action with remote friends at any time, and also for personal security. Rather than a few dozen bodyguards, or even a few hundred bodyguards, whose allegiance cannot be entirely relied upon, a person of great wealth could have millions of such or billions with a hierarchy of control software. Their specifications could also exceed human spec, and operate at limit of theoretically possible designs. In essence superhuman in reaction speed, muscle speed, material strength, endurance, ability to withstand injury and keep operating, etc. Basically it would be private automated armies, that could take on any shape. In reality upon such automated superhuman entities with superhuman aim and reaction, something like a gun is entirely useless(you're not taking out an army of superhuman beings able to withstand countless rounds, yet having superhuman aim, reaction and evasion abilities, with a lone gun no matter the gun.).
So in the future vast security and power will be possible for individuals. Even entire communities would have trouble against such individuals if they too did not have similar automated systems. Will the constitutional right to weapons, allow such beings to be amassed? How will society cope when the human body with any face and voice can be used by individuals in arbitrary fashion? How will those with less assets defend if a confrontation were to arise between them and someone of greater wealth?
What of the government, if their armies become filled with such automated systems, the power would concentrate on the leadership, and if they were unethical it is conceivable unethical things could take place en masse. How would anyone rebel against armies that are immortal and superhuman, and have absolute obedience to a central authority?
What of the manufacturing systems, which may include universal artificial wombs(capable of growing a wide variety of artificial biological creatures), what stops someone from abusing such and creating an actual conscious entity of human level capacity? There'd be no birth certificate, no witnesses, and such creations could be created abused and destroyed, and with record erasure, nothing short of constant monitoring(and even that can be gamed) might have a possibility of impeding such from happening somewhere. Even if most people behave, only a fraction of deviants with such technology, and all sorts of horrors will take place.
While any action might be possible ethically with remote controlled drone like biodroids, it is conceivable someone may want to enslave and abuse entities of limited extent for their own pleasure. The problem is that the level of control and monitoring required to attempt and impede this from occurring puts the entire population a risk of becoming enslaved by the authorities should they become corrupt.
It remains to be seen what the future technological possibilities will bring, but just as we're about to get unlimited freedom slavery of a kind never seen before in history is also about to become possible. We may open the gates of heaven but find that the gates of hell have also been opened. Still the destruction of the present world with a new world built upon it, where at least some conscious entities can experience a world of unlimited freedom, security and time is worth the risk of absolute slavery and a fate worse than death.
Bar technological progress the human fate is a short disease filled life that will be lived filled with countless limitations and bound by countless rules, needless this limits to freedom are.
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