Anyone read about this? I've been losing so much sleep over it.

This actually makes me feel good since the average consumer would need less to survivr with one of those. Especially if you can your ow weapons to defend yourself.

 

Lol you think so. If they can automate surgery they can automate EVERYTHING. Itt might noght not happen in 10 years but in 15 or 20 please believe its possible. At this point all we can do is prepare and brace ourselves for the impending doom. Im even looking into farming of some sort.

 

Interesting. Wish they emphasized this instead of following bs dreams growing up

 

yeah, instead of telling black kids you can be an athlete or a rap star maybe that will be a start. thyen stop financing football will be even better. next go year round school and stop laying off teachers.

need to end the culture of ignorance

 

The bs dreams that were growing up in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is now transforming the world. Remenber in the early 1980's the talk from them on 1. autonomous vehicles (driverless vehicles) 2. pilots associate (smart software flying aircraft) 3. battle management (ultra smart computers that would fight a nuclear and conventional war). Military research is what driving these changes.

 

Yeah just watched a documentary about that today. Theyve spent billions on it so far. The price tag will hit 160 billion by 2030. The world is fastly changing and there is very little we can do. I do see either new religions or old ones taking root once this happens.

 

if you are not part of stems and finance and the healthcare fields you are fucked.look at the BLS.org

the education system is foul also when it comes to the poor

 

What is needed are new ways of re-inventing ourselves as human beings mentally, physically and spiritually to be ready for the new changes that are coming. True, new religions or old ancient wisdoms will make a return to give people spiritual strength to meet the demands of a changing world that will be needed.

 

American workers in particular are going to suffer from the combined effects of technological revolution like this and globalism because we're so used to living high on the hog. unless of course we come up with economic policies that take into account the new realities...

eh, what the hell, maybe we'll just have a third world war to sort things out. :smt023

 

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Lets say Automation does replace all jobs.

Then who is going to buy all that crap since they ain't got a job and all public assitance has been eliminated.

It's like having all the money in the world, it's worthless.

 

that was initial thought too until I saw the bigger picture. It's all about the transfer of wealth. In this capitalistic system the owners have the capital aka the wealth the wage workers were able to trade their labor for some of that wealth. When labor is no longer needed to invest and grow wealth then that means wage workers will no longer be needed. The government will only exist to serve the very few wealthy as they enjoy the fruits of their capital provided by robot workers. Wage worker's labor will be considered useless since they/we can not keep up with robots and software and won't be able to afford the technological advances that will be needed to keep up. Things like human intelligence and hard work will become meaningless to those who the means of production since computers and robots can handle all their needs. After that point they will look for excuses to exterminate the remaining wage workers who haven't starved to death since they are consuming valuable resources that they want for themselves and won't see any reason to share with those who only consume and don't contribute. The vast majority will be far too preoccupied to see it coming. I admit this is a very pessimistic point of view but it seems to fall in line with the sociopathic nature of capitalism as it stands today. The wealthy (not every single one but enough to make things the way they are) believe they have the right to do whatever they want because they own stuff. The last presidential race brought that out in the open in spades. Many think those who aren't rich or can't find a way to be rich just want to mooch of the system, they don't see their good fortune as a result of hard work AND luck they see it as deterministic and believe those who don't share in the good fortune don't deserve it. I want to make it clear i don't think every wealth person is evil far from it in fact. I just think there are enough of them that are apathetic and wrapped up in their own indulgances that if shit got really bad for the ever increasing poor it would just be like a show on tv they can ignore.

 

Electronics are not going to replace human intelligence. Todays technology is very impressive, but you are giving it too much credit here. Be concerned and not worried. Computers are extentions of the mind like the wrench is an extention of the hand. One is a more impressive tool, but make no mistake, both are tools indeed.

 

A wrench can not repair itself and a wrench can not think. Computers and robots will have this capability in the near future. Im not daying next week or even in five years but in fiteen or twenty bet your ass my friend they will. And of course people will always need people and want to enjoy other people but which people? Its no different than how we in the rich western countries livn our lives obsessed with material goods whil people in the third world starve and suffer. I hope Im wrong but it makes sense.

 

how much do you know about electronics? do you have the skill set and knowledge to troubleshoot and repair electronics, such as the reading of schematics? I can tell you why more and more thinkers will be needed as the complexity of electronics increases, I just dont want to include any redundance in my explanation.

 

Not that much but like I said it won't overnight or even with in five years but in fifteen to twenty absolutely. Robots are replacing redundant jobs like cashiers in supermarkets and people on assembly lines like the one million jobs being replaced by robots at Foxconn. We might see a new market come along that is too complicated for machines but as it stands right now it seems like things are headed towards a world where people have less to offer especially those who can't afford to go to college. I actually think traditional education is about to take a much deserved dive as things progress but that's another conversation.

 

Rod Serling was a visionary....

1964....The Twilight Zone episode....

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Ha ha, have it saved in my T.Z favorites. Fantastic episode!...

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I'm with you on the B&W ones. Much more meaningful...very emotional character acting. But I'm a fan of old B&W movies in general (TCM/Turner Classic Movie channel addict here), so I'm biased.

I haven't seen that one with Dustin. Fascinating glimpse into human nature.

Since you have a lot of them, maybe you can help me out here...
I have been looking for the longest for the one where (trying to remember right here) I think either the husband borrows from a neighbor?/or creates a robot that helps his wife and kids out while the husband goes to work. Eventually as time goes on, the robot replaces him completely and the final scene is he comes home and the robot is sitting at the head of the table in his seat...does this one stand out in your memory...I can't recall the title which is why I can't find the episode in their listings.

Anyway, it impacted me...how the husband/father was replaced. Great episode.

 

My God that was great thanks for sharing. If only to live in a world where people heeded and took note. Unfortunately it looks like history will repeat itself again