Posted on 02/16/2014 11:26:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I guess he doesn’t see flying cars just yet.
If there was ever going to be a signal for the imminent collapse of human civilization, this is it.
It's going to take someone to make all of the power to run those robots and 3-D printers.
It's going to take someone to service all of those robots and 3-D printers.
It's going to take someone to source, transport, and refined the resources used by those robots and 3-D printers.
And someone's still going to need to produce food and drink. And handle waste processing. And negotiate real estate (through barter, purchase, or lease agreement) to find room to live.
Then there are the matters of policing the violent, exploitive, and thieves in society.
The more things change, the more they will stay the same.
Ping!
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
Been that way since the end of WWII. Governments have consistently thwarted it. I see no reason not to believe they will continue to do so...or worse!
The technological door of opportunity is huge. We just have to pry it open.
How big is the 3-D printer it takes to make that?
Progressives, socialists, communists, democrats..et.al. These people don’t want a world where every man has all that he needs.
How can they rule a population that needs nothing from government?
They will kick and scream all the way to the future.
They don’t really want cheap and clean power at low cost. They want global warming hysteria and a public made destitute trying to pay the fuel and electric bill.
Anything that makes men free and self sufficient is like garlic to a vampire for them.... they want everyone dependent upon government so they can be in control.
Democrats are really gonna hate the future.
I foresee infinite boredom. . . Man is meant to accomplish things and the vast majority are not cut out for creative work, sad to say. When work is gone, they will have to create make work jobs. . . or non-creative types will find something destructive to do.
Some of the lyrics from my screen name:
Prologue:
..’The massive grey walls of the Temples rise from the heart of every Federation city. I
Have always been awed by them, to think that every single facet of every life is regulated
And directed from within! Our books, our music, our work and play are all looked after by
The benevolent wisdom of the priests...’
**********
We’ve taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It’s one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls
And someone to design the AI’s and make the computers they run on . . .
Electronics introduced a world where we would use significantly less paper than ever before.
Yet, over the last 30 years and at this point today, the world consumes 50% more paper than we imagined we would.
At that so called apogee of utilization of trees, 4 trees were felled, today nearly 6 trees are destroyed.
We will consume 10% more paper than we today in just the next decade.
Fix that Mr. TED intellect.
Howard Mumford Jones
Print tens of thousands of these.
“It’s going to take someone to make all of the power to run those robots and 3-D printers.
It’s going to take someone to service all of those robots and 3-D printers.
It’s going to take someone to source, transport, and refined the resources used by those robots and 3-D printers.”
Without potent new energy sources, there will be no future. The last 40 years in the US alone has seen no congruent, consistent and rational energy policy. How will asteroids and the like be mined and the goods transported? Who/Which nation will claim ownership of said asteroids?
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