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"Politicians need to begin thinking boldly, now, about a world in which driverless vehicles replace most truck drivers’ jobs..." Can we replace politicians wit

by w8rbt 10y ago

"Politicians need to begin thinking boldly, now, about a world in which driverless vehicles replace most truck drivers’ jobs..." Can we replace politicians with robots?

Noseshine 10y ago
Somebody elected them, so they are not the cause but he effect. Even a guy like Trump finds a lot of support from voters. So it seems to me ranting about politicians is like treating the skin rash when someone has measles. Sure, choice is very limited especially in winner-takes-all systems like the UK or the US, but even so, the politicians you get can then be viewed as consequence of the system, so again the secondary issue.
alanwatts 10y ago
Reminds me of a Buckminster Fuller quote: >"I'm going to give you an important kind of a picture. I hear a lot of people say "I don't like machinery and technology it's making a lot of trouble", so we're going to take all the machinery away from all the countries of the world, all machinery, all the tracks and the wires, and the works and were going to dump it all in the ocean. And you'll discover that within 6 months, 2 billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain. So we say, "that's not a very good idea, let's put all the machinery back where it was". Then, we're going to take all the politicians from all the countries around the world and we're going to send them on a trip around the sun, and you'll find we keep right on eating. And the political barriers now...scientists say very clear you could make the world work and take care of 100% of the people at a higher standard of living than anyone has ever known despite the increasing population, but you can't do it with the political barriers, any more than you can try run a human organism with a wall between the ear, the eye, and the stomach. It is an organic whole, it is total industrialization."

by w8rbt 10y ago

"Politicians need to begin thinking boldly, now, about a world in which driverless vehicles replace most truck drivers’ jobs..." Can we replace politicians with robots?

Noseshine 10y ago

Somebody elected them, so they are not the cause but he effect. Even a guy like Trump finds a lot of support from voters. So it seems to me ranting about politicians is like treating the skin rash when someone has measles. Sure, choice is very limited especially in winner-takes-all systems like the UK or the US, but even so, the politicians you get can then be viewed as consequence of the system, so again the secondary issue.

alanwatts 10y ago

Reminds me of a Buckminster Fuller quote: >"I'm going to give you an important kind of a picture. I hear a lot of people say "I don't like machinery and technology it's making a lot of trouble", so we're going to take all the machinery away from all the countries of the world, all machinery, all the tracks and the wires, and the works and were going to dump it all in the ocean. And you'll discover that within 6 months, 2 billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain. So we say, "that's not a very good idea, let's put all the machinery back where it was". Then, we're going to take all the politicians from all the countries around the world and we're going to send them on a trip around the sun, and you'll find we keep right on eating. And the political barriers now...scientists say very clear you could make the world work and take care of 100% of the people at a higher standard of living than anyone has ever known despite the increasing population, but you can't do it with the political barriers, any more than you can try run a human organism with a wall between the ear, the eye, and the stomach. It is an organic whole, it is total industrialization."