Frictionless or Meaningless?

Part 3 of 4 in a series of pieces on tech doomerism.

No doubt technological development has made life easy - but is there such a thing as too easy? Much like how our body may be a source of pain it can also produce pleasure. Can we get rid of friction and suffering without - inadvertently - blunting our experience of joy? What about our inner lives, is it possible to make things too easy? 

The future is lo…