This entire thread OP is a lot like the topics covered in the book and film Fight Club. The OP seems to be describing the problem of modernity in which you spend your days largely saying "Yes Sir," dressed in ways you would not normal dress, doing things that seem largely pointless, and acting cheery even if you are not. People become basically dead inside. Things of course do not fill this, or they might but for some they don't so rampant consumerism doesn't suffice.
I think the hope of a society of self-educating or constantly educated people is not likely to happen. In short I don't buy into the Star Trek Utopia that even a basic income can promise. People are not going to be easily fit within a single universal answer of what they want to do with their life. Expanding on my disagreement with @Nihilist74, and that is that very much Boredom is worse than Death, and Boredom is precisely the society you describe. Not everyone will find solace in books. Science, Math, Engineering and Technology are incredibly well paying fields and still people have little interest in them, that is with tremendous financial incentives. Indeed Kierkegaard even went so far to say that the root of evil is boredom.
In order to fill the void of Boredom people will maybe turn to hedonism, but as lifespans get longer and longer, that will never really suffice. There might be intellectual pursuits, philosophy and science, but with robots solving all of life's problems and ending all difficulty, what would be the point of human action? Finally you could go for the religious life, but I suspect that Atheism and Secularism are the heart of this sort of society and more over it will ring hollow in a world with such vast scientific knowledge to resolve any mystery in life.
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I think in general technical optimists and futurists are too hopeful that technology can somewhat solve existential problems that are core to human life.
To use Kierkegaard for a bit, the problem I have with that outlook is its purely Aesthete. People are hoping that shiny toys or continuous education or chasing "Self Actualization," will fill out the boredom of peoples life.
Plus I think the ecological damage such a society does will create such self destruction if not that, then a pandemic disease. ect. Death always gets his due.