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The Limits of the Digital Revolution: Washing Machines Won’t Go to the Moon

• petra 11y ago
  Why do people always get the notion that "high end" work would be difficult for machines, even though we're seeing lots of breakthroughs in that field ?
  • vskarine 11y ago
    It's not the difficulty that is the problem, but a fear that it can't reliably deal with changing environment/edge cases/anomalies. It's a lot safer and comfortable to have "man-machine symbiosis" for many tasks where machines are used as tools by humans. Machines do most of the work but supervised by humans where humans do high level abstract decisions but most of the work is still done by the machine. Best example I can come up now is probably flying planes, they are mostly flied by the computer but I bet you feel safer when pilots are there even though they do almost no work.
• BHSPitMonkey 11y ago
  I was hoping this would be a piece on why current washing machine designs would be less effective in low gravity. Disappointing.
  • anonymfus 11y ago
    I was hoping that it would be a reference to Stanisław Lem's "The Washing Machine Tragedy" from the part V of "Further reminiscences of Ijon Tichy"( "Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego. V (Tragedia pralnicza)", 1962) where washing machines gradually got all imaginable home automation features and also became telepresense robots, sex dolls and members of organised crime. https://books.google.ru/books?id=1DNVzphAHD0C&pg=PA89&dq=the+washing+machine+tragedy https://books.google.ru/books?id=1DNVzphAHD0C&pg=PA89&dq=the...