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In Reply to: RE: Alternatives to Amazon for CD's posted by Ogsarg on November 21, 2014 at 10:52:12
The military is developing robots that will replace human soldiers within 20 years, including infantry and logistical support, I believe that Google subsidiary Boston Dynamics has a development contract for some of the prototypes. Google is developing driverless trucks, as well. Hence, the future of human labor might be called dystopian were it not so real.
In the meanwhile, however, I avoid Amazon due to its labor practices.
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Our numbers would need to decline much faster than the robot population grows - an unlikely scenario unless our robots kill billions of us quickly, cleanly, and efficiently.
As time goes by, it become more clear that workers exist only at the sufferance of their masters.
I remember a Twilight Zone episode with that very same prediction.
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not to mention efforts in many other first-world nations. It is the new space race.
Will those be owned by the Chinese?
Robots work 24/7 without need for rest or recreation and have no concept of mortality. A large portion of the mass-consumption economy will wither away, i.e., demand for the kind of things that wage workers buy.
Think about it - the robot economy will primarily serve the 1% and use most of the world's resources to do so. Everyone else will live a phantom existence at the fringes of opulence. Or be culled in suspicious wars to reduce numbers. It's not pretty. In fact, it's likely a return to feudalism and robber-barons. Except this time with lethal killer robots enforcing the division.
Big J
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