Productivity and technology has allowed women to do 'manly' jobs. It has been the great equalizer in society. Now we will go further down that line with AI and such replacing both.
You can brag about the advances in freezers and 4k tv. But, that has also destroyed tv repairmen. I'd say there isn't many of those left. Ya can say, well we have iphone repairmen now; not the same.
This is just the beginning on such revolutions coming. AI, gene editing, etc.
“This is just the beginning on such revolutions coming. AI, gene editing, etc.”
So what??
No one is saying that it’s not a “revolution” whatever that means. There have been many technical revolutions throughout men’s history, starting with agriculture, invention of the wheel, bronze and iron age, aqueducts, scientific revolution, industrial revolution, transportation revolution, medical revolution, digital revolution and now possibly AI revolution.
All these revolutions have in one form or another taken previous jobs away and always CREATED MORE NEW AND BETTER ONES.
I’m not at all worried about the loss of jobs. There will be some destroyed and more new ones created. Our problem is that we are not prescient and imaginative enough to know what those new jobs will look like. Do you think the farmer back in 1900 that just got replaced by a tractor imagined jobs such as programmer, airline pilot, foot massager for the masses, barista, etc, etc.
I pointed out the real reason behind this scaremongering in post #17
Having said all that, the other revolution you mention, genetic engineering, does concern me.
All these other revolutions haven’t had the ability to change human nature, other than in some very peripheral way.
Genetic engineering on the other hand may eventually afford us the ability to remake humans in our desired image.
Given that the left is extremely unhappy about our current nature (greedy, unequal, unfair, envious, etc), once this genetic engineering tool becomes effective, they will be the first to glum on to it and remake humans to their liking. Can you imagine the monster they will create?
Of course, Aldous Huxley predicted this in “Brave New World” where he gave us a taste of what that future will be like.
Vonnegut did the same, using more Stalinistic methods, in his short story “Harrison Bergeron”.
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
So if you really want something to alarm me, the genetic revolution could easily do the trick.