[poconopundit]

Real nice post, aquila48. PING

Most of the stuff we have in our homes was made, in part, by robots. 150 years ago they did not have robots... and they had less, and less complicated, stuff. So more robots = cheaper stuff = people have more stuff.

Real nice, Talon.

Our minds think of robots as some futuristic thing -- walking/talking servants or the mass adoption of those huge robotic welding machines that help build cars.

But robots include smaller gadgets that allow work to be done faster. Even a small computer program that increased an individual worker's productivity is a mini-robot.

And so, looked on in that way, robots are already pervasive. They are merely hiding in Excel sheets, wine bottle openers -- automated gadgets on a large or small scale.

What do ya think?

[TalonDJ]

“What do ya think?”

Your exactly right. Every tool or device that makes labor simpler and easier or allows more work to be done is all in the same category as ‘robots’. Engineered devices have been changing live since forever. Many times something has come along to ‘change everything’ and well... we are still here. Horse collars drastically changed human society. So-called robots have been doing that for a long time.

Times change. People adapt. Society changes. Life goes on.