In the book, the doers and thinkers trick the middle men into getting into space arcs and fleeing the planet. Telephone sanitizers are included with the middle men. I will include the overly wealthy also.
I can't see the current batch of robber barons going into space. The technology isn't advanced enough and the infrastructure does not exist. They may risk sending other people there to work on these deficiencies.
I always thought it would be cool to have a doorbell that, when pressed, would flash a red light on the person standing there and then a machine voice would say 'Target Acquired'.
I was there in the 80s and I don’t remember home computers being pushed all that hard. There were Radio Shack ads and ads for running games, but it was just another appliance.
Can they make one to generate beaver enamel? I will accept the red color if I can chew through a tree.