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There will always be toilets but likely in home processing plants will treat it and return safe water and fertilizer to your garden. Anything else would be emp

There will always be toilets but likely in home processing plants will treat it and return safe water and fertilizer to your garden. Anything else would be emptied into your garbage can once a month. Your job, replace the fillers in your house or some such thing.

docdeek 4y ago
Someone is still collecting the garbage, though, right? I think there are some current jobs people will do as hobbies in aid of others and tech will help in ways, including as you suggest, but I think there'll still be someone in that society doing a 'dirty job'.
- yazaddaruvala 4y ago
  Side note: My household generates compost but almost no garbage. It seems to me like taking out the garbage will also be relatively solved by robots. It’s exactly the same problem as restaurant food delivery. I press an app on my phone saying “I have something to deliver” a robot shows up in front of my house. I drop off my garbage with an address labeled “the dump”. “What if that robot breaks down or becomes a giant mess?” “Won’t there still be people at the dump?” I promise you there is no problem I can’t imagine a tech solution for! I do agree we are a bit far away from “all labor is eliminated”. Probably a little more than 100 years, but definitely sooner than 1000 years.
dazilcher 4y ago
> Your job, replace the fillers in your house or some such thing. What about your job when the fancy "in home processing plant" lines get clogged or start leaking? Time to call the guy who deals with that shit for a living.
- yazaddaruvala 4y ago
  I mean i really think you’re missing the point of the main story. It’s talking about a future where all construction and plumbing is automated by robots and is trying to explore the time period after that and what happens beyond. You seem to disagree that it is at all possible and want to explore the time period before that time. Which is fine, I agree there are a lot of details to get right! But if you try a little, it really is easy to imagine todays robots getting to a point that they will diagnose and fix all plumbing issues.

docdeek 4y ago

Someone is still collecting the garbage, though, right? I think there are some current jobs people will do as hobbies in aid of others and tech will help in ways, including as you suggest, but I think there'll still be someone in that society doing a 'dirty job'.

yazaddaruvala 4y ago
Side note: My household generates compost but almost no garbage. It seems to me like taking out the garbage will also be relatively solved by robots. It’s exactly the same problem as restaurant food delivery. I press an app on my phone saying “I have something to deliver” a robot shows up in front of my house. I drop off my garbage with an address labeled “the dump”. “What if that robot breaks down or becomes a giant mess?” “Won’t there still be people at the dump?” I promise you there is no problem I can’t imagine a tech solution for! I do agree we are a bit far away from “all labor is eliminated”. Probably a little more than 100 years, but definitely sooner than 1000 years.

dazilcher 4y ago

> Your job, replace the fillers in your house or some such thing. What about your job when the fancy "in home processing plant" lines get clogged or start leaking? Time to call the guy who deals with that shit for a living.

yazaddaruvala 4y ago
I mean i really think you’re missing the point of the main story. It’s talking about a future where all construction and plumbing is automated by robots and is trying to explore the time period after that and what happens beyond. You seem to disagree that it is at all possible and want to explore the time period before that time. Which is fine, I agree there are a lot of details to get right! But if you try a little, it really is easy to imagine todays robots getting to a point that they will diagnose and fix all plumbing issues.