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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But who would ask me “Would I like fries with my order?”


3 posted on 05/20/2015 8:35:21 PM PDT by ThomasThomas ("YOUR BADGE! SHOW HIM YOUR BADGE!")
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To: ThomasThomas
But who would ask me “Would I like fries with my order?”

A very pleasant voiced robot, perhaps in the form of an attractive young woman.

Why do you ask?

Unless civilization collapses first, this will become a serious issue, probably within the lifetimes of younger FReepers. We are rapidly approaching the point where almost all jobs that can be reliably and enjoyably done by persons of average intelligence and below will be able to be done more cheaply by robots and computers. The use of technology will also drastically cut the need for human beings to do jobs that require significant intelligence -- do we really need more than one person to give lectures on general relativity when a video connection could let everyone get the lectures of the most articulate among brilliant physicists? LegalZoom has already cut down the number of man hours needed from lawyers to do routine things like simple wills or incorporation papers. AI to make valid trust documents, contracts for most matters and the like isn't really that hard to do.

We on the right had better figure out how to manage the transition to a society in which far less human labor, both physical and intellectual, is needed to sustain a developed economy than there are people to provide it, and which will somehow sustain the traditional virtues and personal responsibility. The left and the professional managerial class have a way of managing the transition, and the result will look like the worst features of 1984, Brave New World and The Hunger Games all rolled into one.

60 posted on 05/21/2015 7:04:37 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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