The problem is those that tend to fear the future do so because they can’t SEE what will happen and conclude that if they can’t see it, then it won’t exist. At some point, people have to decide whether they’re going to live in fear of the future or in bold faith in a brighter future. Innovation, invention, entrepreneurship all at some point require that gut-level faith in something they don’t yet see but believe in - what they are doing and in the resulting future betterment. And God, who is man’s friend, has something to say about all of this as well.
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You assume I am afriad of it - I am pretty sure I stated above at #36
"I am not a Luddite - the opposite actually. I think this is inevitable and we need to prepare our kids for it. I don't have a solution as to what that preparation may be. Maybe have your son become a tailor or a carpenter or some skill where his craft is in demand and is wanted for being hand made. I think Amish made furniture will be in demand in the future as it is today."
Here is an article on this I found interesting. Let me know if you think this should have its own thread for discussion. PS: I am not saying you are wrong. You could be correct. We won't know the outcome till we open the future box Ala Schrodinger's cat.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/race-zerosurviving-paradigm-shift-automation-tom-bradley
The Race To Zero…Surviving The Paradigm Shift Of Automation
I think it is a very negative view of things and the future. Again, the economy works on supply and demand. Demand drives supply. If there is a demand for humans rather than automation, like the automated phone thing, then companies who have human-driven customer service will emerge as the winners.
There will always be a place for automation and robots, which as had been pointed out don’t work without power and also have narrow operating parameters, and there will always be a place for human effort and intervention.
This is the crux and not an unimportant issue for it is what will drive whether people choose freedom for their future or governmental tyranny to run their lives.
For example, the whole "sustainability" thing that the Left increasing wants to use as a lever of fear to justify more and more government intrusion and tyranny into our individual freedoms.
The basic argument of the Left is the earth is not "sustainable" and at the current the rate of population growth and the usage of water and power, earth's resources will collapse sometime in the relatively near future. But when you drill down, you find there's no actual verifiable truth to these suppositions and in fact history right up to the present proves otherwise. You find that what is really at work here are two things: 1) fear of the unknown and a tenancy to believe the worst, and 2) demagogues who want to take full advantage of these fears to gain political power over the rest.
The alternative to fear is faith which MUST come into play at some point. Man of himself doesn't know what the future holds and of himself, tends towards fear of the unknown future. The only way man can really choose faith is because he believes in the God of the Bible who loves him and created a world without end that is VASTLY sustainable and automatically renewable (as they have begun recently to discover).
This is the the crux now and will be increasingly the heart of the issue: whether man turns to faith in the loving and merciful God of grace and believes God who sees the end from the beginning has a good future for man, or instead turns to reliance on utterly limited man and his government, the blind leading the blind, which inevitably gives rise to fear as an overriding force.