Posted on 12/10/2014 1:05:31 PM PST by giant sable
You gets tons of robot repairmen for robot repair robots. or something.
In the film DINNER AT EIGHT, a ditzy trophy wife (Jean Harlow) tries to impress a society matron with a book she read. "It says that some day robots will replace humans."
Answered the society matron: "My dear, that is something you won't have to worry about for a very long time."
Yes we do......
Yesterday I visited a small manufacturer of extremely complex machinery. They export world wide their very special industrial machinery products
There was big change since my last visit. They had moved in a very large CNC machine that was awsome in the complexity of the control panel. They have several smaller CNC machines but they don’t have such an awesome appearance. In the other half of the shop there are the old gray machine shop mills and lathes still putting out the stuff.
But the future is clearly in the computer controlled side. Are they robots. I think so. Once the button is pushed, the machine beavers away until the part is complete.
Nonsense. Progress doesn't come rapidly, it has just moved to IT/telecom/medicine/biotechnology from coal/steel/heavy industry/cars/airplanes, we're flying pretty much the same airplanes as several decades ago.
Intelligent machines ? They are friggin calculators that won't do anything more than they are programmed to do and they are programmed by... people, who make good money and spend them - in retail, tourism, fitness clubs etc. - creating more jobs there. Once some jobs are automated, others are created elsewhere, It's nothing new, several thousand years ago +90% of people worked in farming...
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