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>Who do you think will grow your food and look after your open spaces? Robots, i hope.

• chrisseaton 8y ago
  That's not remotely realistic any time soon. We can't all move into the cities and leave the countryside as a wasteland. Many people want to live there, and we need people to live there to keep the spaces living and working. I worry that many people in tech have never spent any time outdoors and have no appreciation of nature at all.
  • Brakenshire 8y ago
    It is already true that robots grow our food, the labour productivity for food production is orders of magnitude higher than 100-200 years ago, huge tracts of land that previously required hundreds or even thousands of workers are now managed by a handful of people and their machines. That process in a way has already happened. And it is already the case that most career opportunities (and a high percentage of young people) are in the cities.
  • petre 8y ago
    Not a wasteland, just sparsely populated like Isaac Asimov's Solaria. Don't worry, the countryside will be just fine without people. Just read The World Without Us. I guess I'll become an agricultural robot repairman like the guy in Interstellar when I grow older.
• pathseeker 8y ago
  >Robots, i hope. Funny, I have the opposite dream for technology where it alleviates the need to pack in as tightly as possible into cities for no particular purpose other than a job. While some people do truly love the city for the density and variety of amenities (I did when I was young), many people are forced to go there because that's where the good jobs are. This is made obvious by the number of people willing to commute an hour in from suburbs. Ideally the only people living in high density are people who want that, which could easily be enabled by technology (remote working).
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