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How about the luddites and looms? Very large percentage of people worked in weaving before tech rushed them out. Or say how we went from 98% of people farming
by brianwawok 10y ago
How about the luddites and looms? Very large percentage of people worked in weaving before tech rushed them out.
Or say how we went from 98% of people farming to 3%.
You think truck drivers going from 5% to 1% is a bigger jump?
- kasey_junk 10y agoThat switch from farming to industry was not some sort of beautiful utopia. It was dangerous & violent & chaotic. It also took hundreds of years. There is at least the possibility that the automated future will be as dangerous & violent & chaotic. It could be much worse as we will have less time to adapt.
- mdpopescu 10y agoHeh. This reminds me of Toffler's books, like "The Third Wave". He thought - in the 70s! - that the amount of information that people had to absorb was too much and people would soon be unable to adapt. This was twenty years before the web.
- CPLX 10y agoHe was wrong?
- Godel_unicode 10y agoVery wrong.
- CPLX 10y agoHe would have enjoyed Black Mirror methinks.