A world without work: As robots, computers get smarter, will humans have anything left to do?

AP ^ | Fri January 25, 2013

[KC_Lion]

Dang it!

That was the Very First thing I thought of too!

You beat me this time Freedumb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic

[bmwcyle]

Maybe they will just kill the non-worker.

[rbg81]

I’d expect to see a Barbermatic before I saw a self driving truck that had to share the road with humans.

See link: Google Self Driving Car

[rdcbn]

>>Vardi poses an equally scary question: “Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren’t working?”<<

History shows that people will simply find new ways to earn a living.

At one point in our history, 30-40% of our population was involved in farming. Now it's about 5%

The big issue is whether these new jobs are going to be done by a creative , dynamic, and innovative entrepreneurial class in a free and open society filled with opportunity an upward mobility, or if if these new jobs are going to be oppressive, soul killing, Soviet Union style government make work drudgery in a non free, closed society with little or no opportunity or upward mobility in an intrusive nanny state that engineers poverty and scarcity.

America voted for the second option in 2012 and that is the direction we are headed.

[Lazamataz]

Interesting. While I am a computer developer, it seems that maybe I am nothing before your skill set, and that, in fact, I will be a bug that you will crush with your automated hyperintelligent laserdrilling robot cowboys.

[Lazamataz]

Interesting. While I am a computer developer, it seems that maybe I am nothing before your skill set, and that, in fact, I will be a bug that you will crush with your automated hyperintelligent laserdrilling robot cowboys.

[Bryanw92]

Oh come on...there’s more than one of her!

[Bryanw92]

>>I will be a bug that you will crush with your automated hyperintelligent laserdrilling robot cowboys.

They’ll be too busy crushing lawyers, unqualified management, politicians, and useless electric cars to worry about you.

[roadcat]

Vardi poses an equally scary question: “Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren’t working?”

In Obamaland, that is already the reality! It's going to get worse for illegal aliens, what with robots taking all the menial jobs.

[EEGator]

Minitrue
Minipax
Miniplenty
Miniluv

[EEGator]

Alright...I’m just really selfish.

[Fiji Hill]

In the mid-1990's, Jeremy Rifkin, the leftie who was behind a protest movement called the "People's Bicentennial" in 1976, predicted in his book The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era (New York: Putnam, 1995) that advances in technology would create mass unemployment. It didn't happen--in fact, unemployment remained low for the rest of the 1990's--and the book soon hit the sale tables at bookstores.

[SSDecontrol]

Wall-E!

[notted]

Y’all, can go ahead and spin a thousand scenarios but the arch of history will trace the ineluctable fate of the world to its primary cause, and inevitably, to our ultimate end brought about by a sad iconoclast, named Toose; A French speaking, robotic minotaur, stuffed with the heads of infidels, and his sidekick, the famous artificial cat, Billy Bronco, both riding sidesaddle on unicorns into to a sea of pudding, til the end of time.

And there is nothing, nothing, you can do to stop it.

[berdie]

later

[LifeComesFirst]

As knives get sharper, will humans have anything left to cut?

As planes get faster, will humans have anywhere to go?

[Cvengr]

There is one basic aspect of these future aspirations, which isn’t adequately considered.

God declared man would work the ground from whence he was taken in Genesis 3:22-24.

Today man is made to perform this function. When he doesn’t or avoids it, he will not have a full joy. There may be indirect linkages to fulfill that end, but that objective has never been replaced by God.

Consider one reason why today’s welfare state fails so miserably. It attempts to substitute an entitlement program en lieu of grace and charity. Men have become accustomed to accepting a welfare check en lieu of labor to barter for the fruits of working the land. It is a vary basic form of corruption. (not criminality, but a corruption of God’s intention) It results in missing out on where God has planned to place us from eternity past.

Mankind will still have a millennium to work out the details, during a rule by the rod of iron after this age of grace has passed.

Even if a time comes when such automation is prolific, the human condition will not advance until that fundamental curse from the Fall has been resolved and a resurrection occurs and the Earth is also removed from that curse.

This may seem old fashioned, but that is partly because it is very much tied to the old sin nature and our present human condition.

All of human history is His Story. No counterfeit substitute for His Plan will ever last, but His is immutable.

GB

[TexasFreeper2009]

I’ve actually been wondering for years why classes dont just watch interactive movies taught be the best teachers in the world on the particular subject.

[indthkr]

is any job safe?

It seems like we can't make politicians obsolete...

[HiTech RedNeck]

that’s a hoax