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Has the prediction been wrong all those years? 99% of work that used to be done is arguably being done by robots, we just be doin different things now instead.
by peteradio 4y ago
Has the prediction been wrong all those years? 99% of work that used to be done is arguably being done by robots, we just be doin different things now instead. IMO it is a bit worrisome that our abilities get further and further from their natural roots. Ever notice how when you look around yourself you couldn't make damn near anything that you are looking at, not even your bare essentials?
- Loquebantur 4y agoThis is indeed a vastly underappreciated point. One issue here is the resulting fragility of the economy. If crucial nodes of competence were to be wiped out by disaster, domino effects could have system-level implications as recovery might take too long. On a more personal level, people more and more lack the competence to understand non-local connections of the world they live in. Resulting in them not being able to judge consequences and making according mistakes.
- foxtacles 4y agoRelated video illustrating your last point using the example of a pencil: https://youtu.be/IYO3tOqDISE https://youtu.be/IYO3tOqDISE
- marsten 4y agoThis is the Faustian bargain of technology: We advance collectively but each of us becomes a tiny cell in some giant organism we can't even perceive. Living entirely apart from that will someday be as impossible as a skin cell in your arm trying to strike out on its own.