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Originally posted by ApexgriN
The problem with this is, (and sorry, I missed your post earlier) what are all the people going to do when the grunt work is done by robots? Will the economy create new jobs? Something like 50% of our workforce could easily be replaced by robots in the near future.
Robotics is facinating and scary at the same time.
EDIT: http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
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The same author has some good ideas on how to resolve the problems of robots in the workplace:
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm. To accomplish this it's going to require some serious grass roots political organizing because the rich owners of the U.S. are not going to want to give up what they have.
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Originally posted by PredeconInferno
the only thing left to do now is to bow to our new robot overlords.
PS the marvin the martian icon rules.
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It doesn't have to be that way if we get off our asses and do something proactively.
PS Thanks!