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That video always get trotted out and it's very strange, it's just a rehash of the technoutopia that was parodied in The Jetsons, 50 years ago. Go read somethin
by JetSpiegel 12y ago
That video always get trotted out and it's very strange, it's just a rehash of the technoutopia that was parodied in The Jetsons, 50 years ago.
Go read something like Paleofuture[1] and come to the real world, where people have been saying that for hundreds of years and it's all vaporware.
[1]: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com
- crdoconnor 12y agoThere's a political imperative to tell this story this time. A lot of people are angry that finding a decent, well paid job is hard in 2015 and they want to know why. It wasn't that hard in 2007. Techno-utopian futurism about us not needing menial labor any more because robots provides a believable "safe" explanation for that meaning that the real, "unsafe" reasons (trade policy; steady de-unionization; financialization of the economy) that are politically contentious can be more easily concealed from the public eye.