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seaeagle wrote: I think robots are great. They certainly improve life for disabled people like me.
Change & technical advancement will always cause some disruption in society, but how that is dealt with is up to us & the people we choose to be our leaders. If they & we accept the future & prepare for it, we will do well. If we fight it, we won't prosper.
There was outrage & concern that unemployment would take over &/or prosperity would end when slavery was abolished, when children were prevented from working in mines, when weaving machines were introduced to England (the birth of the Luddites movement), when mechanical harvesting came to farms, when robotics was brought into automobile factories etc etc etc. Yet, the doomsday predictors were proven wrong time & time again. Instead of society falling apart, life got better, especially for those on the lower rungs of society. Instead of working in the fields, children had free time to go to school. Adults had leisure time, instead of working from dawn until dusk for a pittance every day. People could develop, and invent, and discover.
Regarding our bodies & activities, do we really need to lumber around in heavy suits of meat? After all, our bodies are just there to carry our brains around & reproduce. We may be on the evolutionary path to a stage where we won't need our bodies and all of the problems that come with them. After all, who we are is contained in our brains. You could hook a human brain up to a computer that simulates the human body with all of its senses, place it in a virtual reality world with other brains also hooked up, and it would believe that it is a complete person living a complete life. It could converse, make decisions, travel, have a career, even have sex. That could be our future. It could even be where we are right now - how could we know?
rajukurup wrote: The next generation is expected to be a robotic age .robots doing most activities that human beings perform now like serving food washing clothes , going to the market driving car and many others. is it really a boon to humanity never it will increase the comforts and make people lazy and good for nothing . our ancestors were very active and they lead a healthy life. being active removes all poisonous wastes from our body making it healthy while being sedative enhances the poisons making the body good for nothing .intelligence was the main tool of our ancestors for success with robots taking advantage that trait will be completely vanished and then what is the reality of life according to my view robots are a curse to humanity
Quote:There was outrage & concern that unemployment would take over &/or prosperity would end when slavery was abolished, when children were prevented from working in mines, when weaving machines were introduced to England (the birth of the Luddites movement), when mechanical harvesting came to farms, when robotics was brought into automobile factories etc etc etc. Yet, the doomsday predictors were proven wrong time & time again.
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seaeagle wrote: They're not languishing in poverty purely because of robotics. They are languishing because they got caught in the trap of relying on one type of industry, and when circumstances changed, they weren't able to.
Quote:In the modern age there should be no such thing as a steel town or a mining town or a motor city. That is just putting all of your eggs in the one basket. And not being prepared to meet new tech with new tech will just result in the old tech falling behind
Quote:Adaptation is the key to survival. It always has been with the human race.
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BouldRake wrote:Yep. I remember watching the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still a few years ago & the line from John Cleese (playing the professor) about the human race's habit of waiting until a situation becomes catastrophic before doing something to fix it really stuck with me.
Technology isn't the problem, people are. It's not so much is the robotic age a boon or a curse, it's will humans screw this up - and they will.
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