Every time a new technology comes, it sucks out redundancy from the system. Redundancy of all types, ones we always wanted, ones we never imagined. One axis around which everything remains same is time. We all have limited time, as individuals and civilisation alike. Thus, we need to prioritise it ruthlessly. Knowingly, unknowingly, at work and life alike. If someone's good at some work, they charge higher hourly rate. When value add is even higher, they even get % of outcome. That's how sacred time is!
Magic happens when hours of work can be done in seconds. What that essentially means is now you can program that work. More it can be orchestrated at scale, faster we can time travel as a civilisation in terms of progress. More we save time from repeat work, more we can repurpose time to things that we care about (are real hard) or ones we enjoy (are real fun to us!).
Imagine manually washing your clothes, or walking to travel. It's simple innovation like washing machines and cars which allowed us all to lead better lives. With ai this list is only going to go up, the laundry list of boring essential tasks that will become invisible and done by machines, with our assistance or completely autonomously. More technology saves time for us, more technology unlocks time for us, faster we time travel to future. Travelling to year 2500, in year 2050 itself.