Re: Income for All
Originally Posted by
MKJ
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I think the writing is on the wall. The threads you have started lately are shots across the bows if you ask me, as robots are improving and evolving at an accelerated rate. 50 years from now what could a robot be capable of? Uncomplaining robotic machines already more or less run the car industry and lots of heavy industry too. Just a matter of time when other employers realise they don't have to employ someone and slap in a robot. With the costs dropping on these robots all the time it will filter down to all sorts of manufacturing eventually. Other than that the only jobs available for the masses will be more or less like suffering a living death of mindless boredom, which is as things are now in some factories.
After discussing my recent threads with Lauren (eldest granddaughter) last night, she asked if it would make much of a difference to have robotic nurses, we came to the conclusion that, for patients, it would be better as robots would pay no heed to the hierarchical structure and if a robot thought that a doctor was not doing something in a patients best interest, the robot would intervene - the doctor/surgeon trying to pull rank would find it fell on deaf ears
Did you ever watch a film called Logan's Run? Maybe a future like that one is in store