Posted on 06/26/2016 7:19:43 PM PDT by dangerdoc
Help will arrive eventually?
How about expending the money necessary to recruit and train necessary crews? In the long run it would likely be less expensive than needing to be constantly paying robotics maintenance/repair crews on top of all the rest of needed engineering maintenance that's likely to be unavoidable thus ongoing, regardless if bridge crews can be reduced to near elimination.
We could all become “Master Manipulators”.
(THX-1138)
Silent Running
I envision terrorist hackers crashing these ships into things or blowing them up or hijacking them to other places.
Someday all jobs will probably be done by automation or robots. What then? What will people do to make a living? If the world economy is going this way, what will people do to earn the money to buy the goods made by automation? Automated goods so cheap to make they are free? Guaranteed income for all? Something will have to change.
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This will happen, and it will happen relatively quickly when it does. When it happens there will be a huge change in societies. With no labor for the masses all there will be is welfare. Only land owners will be getting ahead. Eventually robots will take over repair functions. The government will get bigger and bigger.
The pirates will have a field day!
And no one will retrain a pirate these days ...... sad.
Go here to watch ships crashing into one another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVn9qANtC6g
Maybe in the future people’s jobs will be to use those products that are produced through total automation. Since their job is to test and consume the products, they would be paid for it.
When the Coast Guard went to automated engine rooms on ice breakers to save money on crewing they traded in watch standers for electronics technicians to keep all the sensors and computers going. Not much of a net gain. OTOH, machinery is getting much more reliable. But then, when does the pilot come on board for the trip up the channel to the dock? Pilots union and merchant mariners unions are pretty well protected by congress.
Walt Disney's had those since the Sixties. :-)
I hear the Somalis are working on that.
You know, Somalia is a Titan of high tech engineering.
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