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CJCRANE

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9. The stage just before the singularity is also interesting...

Reply to rhett o rick (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 7, 2014, 07:36 PM

Feb 2014

Later on I had this image of robots picking tea leaves on a tea plantation in India and I got to thinking (as I'm sure others have done before me)...

What happens when the robots can do *everything* for us? That is when they can till our fields, pick our crops, build our houses and machines, do our cleaning, cook our meals, drive our cars, deliver pizzas etc. etc.

What happens to money and profit when there are no jobs left for people to do?

No jobs means no wages means no consumers means no corporate profits...

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Can we discuss the Technological Singularity here (and the movie "Her")? It's philosophical. [View all] rhett o rick Feb 2014 OP

Yes we can. I just had a vision of a post-singularity world after reading this. CJCRANE Feb 2014 #1

That's your vision of life after the singularity? nm rhett o rick Feb 2014 #2

*SPOILER* In William Gibson's "Neuromancer" CJCRANE Feb 2014 #3

I have, in part, used "Neuromancer" to influence my image of what will happen rhett o rick Feb 2014 #4

The stage just before the singularity is also interesting... CJCRANE Feb 2014 #9

Noam Chomsky: The Singularity is Science Fiction! bananas Feb 2014 #5

Do you agree with Chomsky? nm rhett o rick Feb 2014 #6

i do tiny elvis Feb 2014 #12

It there no one that wants to discuss the singularity? nm rhett o rick Feb 2014 #7

There isn't much traffic in this forum by the looks of it. CJCRANE Feb 2014 #10

Yeah I agree. nm rhett o rick Feb 2014 #11

Kick rhett o rick Feb 2014 #8