Posted on 06/08/2016 6:21:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Ping for Later
Even the robot maid won’t be safe from Arnold. ;-)
People are not going to wholesale abandon that freedom and security and joy.
But taxi's with drivers, or buses or long haul trucks will be gone in 10 years, max.
Completely gone.
Same with tractors and most farm equipment...robots. Trains. Probably airplanes. Cargo ships.
And I don't believe we'll ever get rid of lawyers.
“I have used AirBnB a fair amount, including for travel in Europe. Sometimes great, sometimes just fair, but never had a bad experience.”
My son’s friend booked an AirBnB for an out of town bachelor party for my son and four friends. The place was advertised as being able to sleep five. They arrived to find out three of the beds were children sized.
Funny you mention Slovenia. That’s a place I’d like to visit, along with Venice. If I ever set foot on an airplane again.
How will people buy the stuff that gets produced if they have jobs and therefore no money?
Why would stuff be produced if most people do not have the income to purchase it?
How will people buy the stuff that gets produced if they have jobs and therefore no money?
How will people buy the stuff that gets produced if they have NO jobs and therefore no money?
Ho hum. Would be nice if this mythology was true. Pie in the sky stuff written by a high school student in a Third World country.
“Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.” Goof ball.
“Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years.” Dream on, buddy.
No mention of three American technologies that should be used today in order to help families globally and clean the environment:
Plasma recyclers (even recycles nuclear waste)
Boron engines (cars can run for years on a trunk full of boron)
Integral Fast Reactors (God’s gift to humanity from Cal Tech.)
People will give up driving cars eventually— it will only be a matter of when— no accidents and no death is a pretty good motivator, as well as the other benefits.. As processing speeds increase, it will be like saying that someone today would multiply 20,584 x 13,567,450 manually instead of using a calculator..
As technology increases, energy is already getting cheaper (see fracking)..
But spell-check and grammar-check will still be sub-standard.
Regards,
For the sake of argument, let's assume this will be true. If most people don't have jobs, they will have no income from their labor. How will people buy stuff with their primary source of income gone?
Who cares what the 99.9% of the population consisting of poor shlubs can't buy? The 0.1% of the population that are multi-billionaires will consume enough for everyone!
Regards,
I am not gonna have computer algorithms determine my car is the one to crash for it estimating it will save the most people. And they have damn well talked about this.
You are assuming no glitches or power failures or computer failures or mechanical failures or algoritm flaws can occur in this utopian system.
We ain’t nowhere until we have flying cars.
Been waiting for that since 1965.
I’m holding out for a job at Spacely Sprockets.
When I try to multiply large numbers like that, all I get is a bunch of numbers followed. a large E.
So I have to get a piece of paper to figure it out
I wonder How student Sharapunda would deal with it?
With Kodak gone I wonder what has happened to the cattle bone industry.
Kodak used to be a huge market for chemically liquified cattle bones as the base to their film.
“Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There will be companies who will build a medical device (called the “Tricorder” from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medicine, nearly for free. “
There was something on the news yesterday about AT&T creating some Internet-of-things health device company, down in Texas.
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