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>We live in sci-fi. So were are our servant robots and flying cars? >The only things withholding this sci-fi from happening: lack of competent workforce (prog
by dmorgan 14y ago
>We live in sci-fi.
So were are our servant robots and flying cars?
>The only things withholding this sci-fi from happening: lack of competent workforce (programmers and roboengineers) and lack of vision.
That's too generic an accusation. One could say that about any problem.
>We could have a program writing programs, but I won't bet on that. Somebody will still have to give it orders; and the guy giving orders to a program is a programmer by definition. You will have a lot of programmers overseeing computers and robots do various tasks, and that would be the largest and busiest part of the workplace.
So, your vision of sci-fi future is conveniently constrained such that programmers are always needed and in large quantities.
Why seeing everything we currently do becoming automated as an easy task, and not also the overseeing of "computers and robots doing various tasks"? If you trust them to do the work, you can also trust them to do it correctly, and built the required self-correction routines.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoNo. We don't have means of teleporting matter; this is a problem; and we can't blame it on lack of vision yet. We don't know how to do it, don't know if it's physiclly possible. Sure you can automate more and more things, in this case programmer will be the last [productive] job remaining. One that slowly wane when more and more things are fully automatic and all other jobs already gone.
- akurilin 14y agoWe already have cars that drive themselves and are getting sci-fi glasses with really primitive Augmented Reality. We're getting there, I just don't think we'll ever consciously realize it as we experience it.