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Robotic Future: Utopia, Dystopia, or Myopia?
marshallbrain.com — They're coming. But unlike the T-100, they won't kill us with bullets but with economics. This series, by the creator of 'How Stuff Works', discusses his vision of the future as a dystopia, and the possible solution to the problems of the wave of politicization that's coming. Worth thinking about NOW before we're all unemployed in 10 years...
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- Endomorphic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He basically says that in order to maintain the creative spirit of capatalism, we have to enter into a type of welfare/socialist system that redistributes wealth politcally. His idea is to create a world of subsidized artists and entrapeunres.
I agree with his view. There will be mass displacements, and wealth will accumulate into fewer hands in ever greater disparity. There can eithter be a revolution, or a political solution. But like global warming its another issue to discuss at present before it runs us over like a frieght train. - myrm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I will make this prediction: by 2008, every meal in every fast food restaurant will be ordered from a kiosk like this, or from a similar system embedded in each table."
*****... what are all arts majors going to do :)
Seriously though, in the next 20 years they'll get hundreds even thousands of times better at completing repetive tasks with slight variation.
"Whoah" 1011010010 says to himself, "that bolt is out of place by 20mm, 10001010 (aka Asimo mk 12) is slippin in his old age!"
This will be an ongoing process, however, one that will take place for centuries to come, just as it has been taking place for centuries past. Machines will replace humans to an extent, but to even begin to believe that within 20 years, 30 years or the life time of anyone alive today that machines will be able to replace us in any areas that require quick judgement, quick adaptation to the unfamiliar or critical thought is taking it a bit too far.
Mind you, if they get out of hand... mark my words... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite)
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