New Delhi: When machines or artificial intelligence (AI) replace human effort, humanity would be forced inward, seeking meaning rather than material survival, and in that world, India -- not China or the West -- could emerge as the most influential civilisation through its millennia-long engagement with the nature of consciousness, according to a new report.

Jan Krikke writes in Asia Times that India will lead the way in a post-work world.

Macrohistorian Lawrence Taub predicted that around mid-century, automation, artificial intelligence and "free energy" would make the ‘Worker Age’ obsolete, forcing societies to confront a vacuum of identity.

"If the 19th century harnessed physical power and the 20th century harnessed information, the 21st century will have to harness consciousness. T

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