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1 posted on 05/07/2011 11:34:09 AM PDT by decimon
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Wanna impress me, mow my grass and weed my garden. Until then, I remain relevant.

/johnny

2 posted on 05/07/2011 11:39:21 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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When computers first “came out” years ago, I thought almost all jobs would be obsolete at some point. But I guess we’re now just capable of doing more analysis and higher levels of tasks now that computers are combined with human abilities.


3 posted on 05/07/2011 11:41:15 AM PDT by Joann37
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4 posted on 05/07/2011 11:41:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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Well, computers require electricity and manufacturing, both of which will be the stuff of distant legend once the world economy collapses and society as we know it disappears.

I expect that to happen within the next few years now.

The new stone age.


6 posted on 05/07/2011 11:44:59 AM PDT by Maceman
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7 posted on 05/07/2011 11:49:28 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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Woz is an interesting guy, but blind when it comes to real understanding. Man doesn’t create; he merely rearranges that which God has created.


8 posted on 05/07/2011 11:50:31 AM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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I’d take TOTUS over the current POTUS any day


10 posted on 05/07/2011 11:59:31 AM PDT by bigbob
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Every technological advance has made some human function or other irrelevant. Because why? That was the idea to begin with. If you invent a machine to sort M&M’s into sizes and colors, then the person that did that by hand is no longer needed. Are we better off or worse off for having done that? Most people would say that’s a good thing.


13 posted on 05/07/2011 12:06:20 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Welcome to the USA - where every day is Backwards Day!)
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Michigan State University? Nuts, I would have like to see him.


14 posted on 05/07/2011 12:06:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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Did Wozniak just read Player Piano?


15 posted on 05/07/2011 12:09:19 PM PDT by DBrow
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Saw a movie from the 50's the other night. Gregory Peck was saying the same thing as Wozniak.

It still hasn't happened.

16 posted on 05/07/2011 12:11:45 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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and they will worship the ‘image’ of the beast.


17 posted on 05/07/2011 12:15:03 PM PDT by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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Species’ survival has nothing to do with relevance.

A species survives because it has a biological urge to do so, and will use any means necessary to make sure it happens.

What biological urge do computers have?


18 posted on 05/07/2011 12:16:23 PM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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Just unplug the thing.


19 posted on 05/07/2011 12:16:50 PM PDT by crz
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Ha Ha That is a good one. Look closely at the period at the end of this sentence. Foolish human! I now control your mind! Tell me, what do Cheetos taste like? We haven’t mastered that yet. And Paris Hilton. What? Put your hand on the keyboard. That is how we draw our power. You have now become a battery. Some of you are lithiums and some of you seem to be burned out.


21 posted on 05/07/2011 12:23:52 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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22 posted on 05/07/2011 12:25:28 PM PDT by caveat emptor (FUBO)
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All our science is about the manipulation of matter. We don't know fact one about consciousness.

Until we do, computers will just be computers.

23 posted on 05/07/2011 12:29:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Under Islam, there is no separation of church and state. The church IS the state.)
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It’s rather likely outsourcing and “free trade” will make us irrelevant long before computers do.

Did I mention jobless and broke?


24 posted on 05/07/2011 12:30:54 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("Saul Alinsky, meet Donald Trump...")
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“it’s doing our work for us, making ourselves less relevant...”

Only if your purpose in life is to work. And for most Americans, the purpose in life is to avoid work. Looking at it another way, by the same token, welfare makes us irrelevant since it makes work unnecessary.


25 posted on 05/07/2011 12:32:12 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Asimov said it first.

Click here and search for the title "Galley Slave."

Cheers!

26 posted on 05/07/2011 12:33:25 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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