By: Dark Cyberian Knight
The culture and social structures will change. It probably won’t be smooth. We need to look forward to smooth the transition. Our values of work and wealth can not hold up as they are. The outcome...
View ArticleBy: Magni Johannsson
Yes you are right, education is key. If you don’t have that, you will be left behind.
View ArticleBy: Patrick Martin
It really wont be long before even that is developed, look at all the new technologies emerging. Its really only a matter of time before and electric muscle is developed; heck there probably already is...
View ArticleBy: Brandon
we’ll just travel and live in different cities for years at a time – you’ll have to go to Sydney to meet a Parisian for Paris will be filled with New York accents. What will happen to Paris after New...
View ArticleBy: Robert Shaw
The real problem is that no job == no income. All the routine jobs will be automated and most people are only capable of doing routine work. Saying, “hey, everyone will be a software engineer” is...
View ArticleBy: vmaldia
no job = no income = no way to buy food, etc. But that may not be a necessary end scenario. If a post scarcity society develops like the star trek or culture universe then there would be no problem....
View ArticleBy: yoram
A few weeks ago, in a lecture, the speaker discussed the complexity of the human brain, but also the complexity of a silicon processor. I checked some of the data, and here it is: in 1971, The Intel...
View ArticleBy: narceron
The article supports that robots will eliminate jobs, but new jobs will be created. I think as long as you are able to do jobs that robots can’t do, you’ll be fine.
View ArticleBy: David Lapham
This is the plantation mentality. I think that everyone is above working like a robot. You are lowering the value of “unskilled” labors. Everyone has skill, and everyone that has a brain can learn a...
View ArticleBy: PeteEllis
I hope you are right! I would really like to see a usable anthropomorphic robot that can perform all the same tasks as a human in my life time.
View ArticleBy: Kirk Holden
I am going to read and interpret captcha encrypted text strings for bots. I will take my payment in Clif Bars and Coke Zero; the people chow for the 21st century.
View ArticleBy: Andrzej Wojcicki
First of all not all people are going to write novels or do any creative/artistic work. In a modern, connected world you don’t listen to mediocre music, or watch poorly made movies. Winner takes all....
View ArticleBy: Cube Spawn
If you really want a better perspective of a society without “jobs” as we know them, where everythin automatable has been handed over to machines and where people are more like unemployed full time...
View ArticleBy: neil21
The price of many goods is unrelated to their cost of production. Free to produce doesn’t immediately mean free to buy. See this 60 minutes segment on Luxottica who set the price of glasses:...
View ArticleBy: neil21
I’m trying to answer that here: http://technooptimist.tumblr.com/ It’s still arts (broadly defined to include things like consulting and law) or science (maintaining and inventing the robots).
View ArticleBy: neil21
Humans are social animals, so most people will live in clusters, rather than in rural isolation. Time isn’t eradicated. With more mobility, the most pleasantly designed cities (narrow streets with...
View ArticleBy: neil21
It will be relative hardship, though, and the surplus wealth will end up in land value. We already have something like that in much of the developed world, where people don’t really starve or get...
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