When AI Takes Over, We're Left With The Ferris Wheel

I was thinking the other day... when robots and AI eventually take over all the work and I have absolutely nothing left to do, what would I actually be doing all day?

I sat down with Google and started mapping it out and came up with this list.... going to..

• Movie Theatre
• Concert
• Comedy Shows
• Plays (Theatre)
• Museum
• Art Galleries
• Planetarium or Science Centre
• Market (Window shopping) - casual eating
• Mela (Fairs/Festivals)
• Restaurants, Themed Cafes, or Fine Dining
• Bars, Pubs, or Lounges
• Food Festivals or Street Food Tours
• Monument (historic locations)
• Tourist Place
• Cruise
• Zoo or Wildlife Sanctuary
• Botanical Gardens
• Adventure Sports
• Adventure / Water Parks
• Play Zones
• Matches (Live Sports)
• Bowling or Go-Karting
• Escape Rooms
• Ice or Roller Skating
• Arcades
• Spa Days (Massages, facials, or sauna sessions)
• Hot Springs or Bathhouses
• Luxury Salons (Pampering sessions)
• Creative Classes (Pottery, Paint & Sip, candle-making)
• Culinary Classes (Cooking or cocktail-mixing)
• Dance or Specialty Fitness Events (Zumba party, aerial yoga)
• Nightlife & Adult Gaming
• Nightclubs
• Casinos
• Horse Racing
• Space~

Staring at that list, I started thinking about the sheer absurdity of human entertainment. Take the Ferris wheel. Someone, at some point, thought of a giant round structure, decided to mount it vertically, and figured people would hand over money just to spin in circles. And people actually did. Not because it transported them anywhere, but purely for the experience of it.

That’s when it clicked for me.. this connects to literally everything around us. At our core, we are just here to experience this world, and almost all human effort goes into making those experiences better.

People gladly pay a premium for two extra inches of legroom on a flight. They migrate to an app like Cred, not because it reinvented money, but because it took the miserable, anxiety inducing chore of paying credit card bills and turned it into a frictionless, visually satisfying interaction.

It’s not even just consumer apps. It applies to how we build technology itself. Look at developer tools.. why did a library like PyTorch take over deep learning? Because it abstracted away the brutal, verbose math and gave coders a clean, intuitive interface. It felt like writing normal Python. Even engineers are just users who want a better experience when interacting with their own logic.

That’s actually the core of what we are doing right now at Influenzo. We are building the underlying programmatic engines to give creators and editors a vastly better experience. By removing the friction of manual editing and tedious tasks of creating motion graphics, we are engineering a system that just lets them focus on making better videos.

Everyone in this world is ultimately working to provide a better experience to someone else.

I tried to find good material on this.. deep dives into how these experiences are engineered and why we crave them.. but I couldn't find anything useful to savor. So, I thought I’d make a dump for everything I find while trying to understand it more. Let's see where this goes.