@pcharles, I agree, let's hope that day doesn't come! The one concern I would have is of course there will be people who need to maintain and program those robots but not everybody will either be on that level of knowledge nor would some people want too.
I have been wrestling with this very question for last 3-5 years myself.
And the easiest solution(to my mind) is to be able to Grow your own Organic Food.
Even if its just a little bit;it makes so much sense not to have to depend on either the Grid or SupplyChain or on your Job for everything.
The other thing is to add some more complementary skills which can be used in times of financial Distress and is of wide benefit to the Community around you.
pcharles, - looked at another way, if there ever comes a time when our services as humans were no longer needed, it would mean we have achieved some eureka moment and we can now sit back and put our feet on the tables as those robots attend to us ...:-)
pcharles, - looked at another way, if there ever comes a time when our services as humans were no longer needed, it would mean we have achieved some eureka moment and we can now sit back and put our feet on the tables as those robots attend to us ...:-)
Absolutely. Where there's technology, there will always be humans to make it happen. Even better is technological innovations that still require humans in some shape or form. Until the day comes when robots run the show, we'll always be needed, and even then, someone will have to develop and program those robots, right?
Hopefully, it stays this way. I was having a disagreement with someone the other day about how technology will end up taking everyone's jobs except for a lucky few.
I think this is far from the case and humans will still be needed to make things work in the long run. I mean, people run businesses, not machines right?
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
