Posted on 02/11/2013 9:38:13 AM PST by MichCapCon
Heck, they can’t even keep their own abodes in order.
Trying to stop technology is like putting up a ten-foot wall to stop a 100-foot tsunami wave.
Manufacturing is a national security issue. The real danger of the robotics is the loss of knowledge.
I disagree cripple ;)
No. However we don’t need to become a society based entirely on us (people) sitting on our duffs and become “enlightened” to the point we are morphed into fat blobs of latte coffee while tracking what our neighbors are doing for breakfast, lunch and dinner (fb mentality). I can see that happening quicker than not. Not to mention who controls these robots once we evolve them to become almost humanly independent. Is there are override chip so the feds can take control when they deem necessary to control output or in a larger conspiracy theme turn them against us?
And that would be an even better number if we quit trying so hard to be globalist and create everything here and only import raw goods, at least until the playing field is level as far as import/export tariffs and such.
Yes, that is a very disturbing facet of outsourcing. The worst part is that we’ve armed our potential future enemies with the ability to create anything that we can come up with, and use it against us. The chinese gained some very valuable insight, and learned some very valuable lessons from the fall of the soviet union. The point to remember is this: the chinese are EFFIN COMMUNISTS!!!. WHAT PART OF THAT DO PEOPLE HERE NOT UNDERSTAND???. Alas, with you and me coming from Michigan, we’ve had to witness the destruction of our industrial infrastructure up close and personal. I’ll take what I learned, and put it to good use, against those who put profit above country.
There’s a revolution in robotics just like the PC revolution in computers: changing from large centralized robots to small distributed networked servos. 5 years ago we had a 1/4 million dollar robot the size of a backhoe placing .1 oz. inserts in packages. Now that can be done by a $50k robot the size of a breadbox. Which device can be quickly reprogrammed to do any similar task.
Eveything our competitors have can be obsolete in 3 years.
With China, it's not about political ideology, but race....every bit as much as it was with the Nazis.
The faster that people can transition from one technology to another, the less that people will complain. The more that someone is included in the progress, the more that they will go along with it - including robots. Finally, the longer that someone benefits from that transition, the more value that they will see in making it.
That aside, I’m not sure that the “service economy” is anything other than something that happens in bad economic conditions. Expecting everyone to be consultants or otherwise marginally attached to work(especially for long amounts of time in places normally associated with more permanent work) does not work for everybody. The service sector mindset simply isn’t in everyone that wishes to be productive.
I have no problem with advancements and improvements in technology. I’ve seen it first hand. The point I’m making is that the future advancements are being shifted to future enemies solely for profit, consequences be damned. The chinese are waking up to the fact that they don’t NEED us for techonlogical innovation anymore. They have the funds and resources to sweep us aside, and do what they want, and eventually conquer. The one thing to remember is that private property rights do not exist in communist china. All of those factories in china reside there solely by their good graces. When they decide to, all of that manufacturing capacity becomes the property of their government, with no recourse. If you build your stuff in china, that stuff, along with the know how, no longer belongs to you. Sorry, but you will be SOL.
“The one thing to remember is that private property rights do not exist in communist china.”
And the IRS, OSHA, EPA, etc. have severely limited them here. Making it comparatively less of a risk to manufacture overseas.
Along with the goverment sucking up capital for it’s welfare system and facilitating the trial lawyers, it’s probably more risky to build here.
It’s not investors building up our enemies, it’s our government.
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