That is VERY true.  Some people think jobs need a "human" touch", are too high-level cognitively, or simply don't currently see that there is an automated way of doing it when one could easily imagine there could be. How many people could be employed by a world-wide communication system that used no computers but wa...more

Do you know how automated the process is from getting animals grown and killed to making you a big mac?   I really don't think people want to pay more bank fees so they can have more tellers.  I don't think people will care much at all when all the simple service jobs go away.   Do you miss having a person operat...more

Yes, there is a way.  It might not happen quickly, but it likely will.  Things will get so cheap that they're not worth fixing, or machines will repair machines.  Cars already have computers to make the job easier.  It just goes on from there.

Well, they will be scaled down a lot, and then largely replaced like most things.   A smart-tech room and a technician (or automated "rounds-bot") could do better than a stressed, tired, flawed person who's expected to balance everything that they are expected to.  There's already butting heads between registered (4 ye...more

Okay, so for the sake of entertainment, you want more resources used, more oil burned and converted into plastic, etc...yeah, that's much better.

Okay, come out of your lab and take a look at a modern factory with automatic forklifts on tracks, automatic sorters/quality control machines, automatic everything.  I worked at a factory doing a simple job through the summers.  I watched myself be replaced by machines that needed a person to watch them, and then machi...more

Family guy and other modern shows use more computers and less people in the animation/production ​ , distribution, etc. than any time in the past, and still people with debt will slap down their credit card to pay for cable, online viewing, or boxed sets for it.

I guess we could still have cars that need overhauls just to make it a few thousand miles so that more mechanics could have work, or people lighting street lamps all night as a living.  Me, I kinda wish we had Roman style baths where someone would have to crawl underneath and sweep out the ashes from the wood fire...no...more

Who says they're going to get money?  They're not guaranteed even the basics of life. They'll likely go poor, as you see happening now, poorer in some ways than their parents.  There are plenty of countries with double-digit unemployment, wealth disparity where billionaires live next to people who don't have clean wate...more