That Richard White guy has a blog post of his thoughts on the topic: http://rrwhite.com/on-the-inevitability-of-automation http://rrwhite.com/on-the-inevitabil

That Richard White guy has a blog post of his thoughts on the topic: http://rrwhite.com/on-the-inevitability-of-automation http://rrwhite.com/on-the-inevitability-of-automation And for a shameless self-plug I made a recent blog post on the same topic of automation a couple of weeks back (although from a different angle): http://standardfuture.com/post/58571196148/a-fully-automated-society-overly-simplified-and http://standardfuture.com/post/58571196148/a-fully-automated... Automation in society IS something we (especially as hackers) should feel responsible for discussing, planning for AND acting on. I know we are some fairly smart people, I just hope that we are all smart enough to take this seriously. :)