(07-24-2017, 01:10 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(07-24-2017, 12:05 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Marty, the problem is you see yourself as one of the smart people who won't get displaced.  That is wishful thinking.  ALL careers are under "attack" by technology.  There will be algorithms taking the place of white-collar decision-makers at every level.  There will be surgical robots with encyclopedic knowledge, superior visual ability and much finer motor skills than any human.

Agreed. A lot of people don't think it's possible for a full-on technocratic takeover but it's definitely been in the works for decades ever since business owners realized the insane amount of profits that could be had.

By simply replacing human beings with machines that can work at an incredible rate of production. It's only been a matter of time as to when the A.I would get much, much more life like. It's a very dangerous situation. 

A lot has to be considered here. As more and more jobs dry up thanks to greed and technology. More civil unrest will rightfully spring up. This was inevitable. 

It's been predictable for decades as well. Back in the late 1970's and throughout the 1980's when movies like "They Live, "Terminator", "Network" and "1984" were coming to life. The masses and generations to come were being given a small glimpse of a future reality packaged up nice and neatly as fantasy or science-fiction. 

Now here it is in 2017. We're now talking about cars that drive themselves. Drones that deliver goods. The Government being busted for spying and stealing information right out of your home. Automated algorithms, self service centers and convenience all at your disposal through your phone through your fingertips. Future wars being fought not on the battlefield with guns and grenades but technological takeovers and machines eventually fighting in our place. 

Doesn't seem so crazy or science fiction or fantasy like anymore. It's starting to become a reality. And people should be concerned. The Baby Boomers and some of the early Generation X people won't have to worry about this so much. But millennials and Generation Z people will have to carry the heaviest of these issues down the road. 

And sadly most of them will be just fine and comfortable with it because they were born into it and molded by it. It's now the social norm to allow your freedoms and rights and your future to be completely dictated by Big Brother. It's okay for Corporate America to be inside your homes. It's cool that the United States of Advertising wants to make you into a Cyborg.

Just a bunch of pieces of meat with no eyes or brain matter to these people. Just a bunch of sheep. That's the world we now live in folks.

What you say is mostly true, but still, the question remains, what are we going to do about it?   We can pretty well predict which people will be the first to be displaced, so do we do anything, or just wait for them to rebel and come for the rest of us who still have either jobs or money, and demand that we support them?   You can be sure that that will happen, because that is what has happened throughout history when people are displaced from work.  They rise up and demand that somebody save them.  They aren't going to quietly go and starve. 

It's a completely predictable situation.

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