The robots are coming

We will soon be made redundant, doing nothing. Is the future really as bleak as it sounds? You can see how technology is affecting jobs in supermarkets, self service check out. A Sainsbury’s branch is trialling out a store with no checkouts meaning less people need to be be employed.

Reply 1

Sinnoh

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you know, it's a pretty weird trait of society when people are viewing not having to work as being a bad thing

Reply 2

SaucissonSecCy

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Its much worse than that. 'Downloadable brains', microchips, nano, mind reading tech. Orwellian nightmare.

Reply 3

Drewski

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Amazon are already running stores like that in Canada.

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Original post by SaucissonSecCy

Its much worse than that. 'Downloadable brains', microchips, nano, mind reading tech. Orwellian nightmare.

i would never get a chip in my brain thats what they r trying to do now

Reply 5

drbluebox

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Joking aside I heard last year that the rich in America put that contactless like chip in their finger so they can just tap it and go, its a status symbol.

Reply 6

Pencil

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Imagine that? A whole world with no jobs and robots running everything.

I imagine there would be no need for money either, with food and drink in abundance. There won't even be housework to do.

Just lots of doing whatever we want - perusing hobbies, curing cancer, inventing teleporters and stuff.

Reply 7

anosmianAcrimony

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On the one hand, there's automation replacing human work and leading to a post-scarcity society; on the other hand we have climate change, rising sea levels, drowning cities, and biodiversity loss. I have no idea what this century's going to be like but it's gonna be a ride.

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drbluebox

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Original post by Pencil

Imagine that? A whole world with no jobs and robots running everything.

I imagine there would be no need for money either, with food and drink in abundance. There won't even be housework to do.

Just lots of doing whatever we want - perusing hobbies, curing cancer, inventing teleporters and stuff.

We would end up like in WallE

Reply 9

OFortuna16

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and what if all natural resources run out and tech halts? :wink:

Reply 10

Drewski

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Original post by drbluebox

Joking aside I heard last year that the rich in America put that contactless like chip in their finger so they can just tap it and go, its a status symbol.

Sweden

Reply 11

SaucissonSecCy

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Original post by 000_0000

i would never get a chip in my brain thats what they r trying to do now

I know. Its horrendous. Its already happened to people without consent. Not necessarily in the brain. But it's happened. Rare to find someone who takes it seriously. I've been trying for years to change something about the direction of travel(personal experiences mean I know how bad it is). But you can't do it without more people on board on this issue.