Maybe one day, science will find a way to make sleep unnecessary and give us unlimited energy. But I hope it happens after we have fixed the whole job problem and nobody has to work. Otherwise, our masters will just notice that we are too rested and demand 14 hour days instead of 8 hour ones, or even worse.
To them we are just warm bodies; machines, and our real lives are a necessary inconvenience to them. Nothing about such a technological advance would change that. They would say... "look at all the time my machines are wasting, being human!" So, they would demand more and more, until we all felt exactly as we do now.
That would suck. Even now it sucks so much. Because for those who work they are left with more tired hours for themselves. Always need to come into work fresh and rested, while the portion that is theirs is clouded by feeling exhausted. Fair?
Cog in the machine, huh? I hope one day we can just tell them to fuck off :D
It's far from fair, which is why I think we should all hack our schedules to flip our days around so that work comes last, or at least make some time for ourselves before work in the morning. Our masters demand tribute of 8 precious hours per day, but nobody said they had to be our freshest ones.
I can't wait for that fuck off moment; I hope we all make it there soon ^_^