[cuban leaf]

The time is very near - VERY near - where humans will not be needed for any task whatsoever. And I mean ANY task. By “very”, I mean 20 years at the most.

It will implode very fast.

[wally_bert]

I agree with you pretty much.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The time is very near - VERY near - where humans will not be needed for any task whatsoever. And I mean ANY task. By very, I mean 20 years at the most. It will implode very fast.

Great. That will end the reign of terror of millions of bureaucRATS and other union thugs.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

What then? Does every body get put on welfare or does the elite start culling the masses to free up resources so that they can live in unprecedented luxury?

[Black Agnes]

Precisely the reason the elites are so heavily invested in this stuff.

They plan on doing away with US yet retaining their full service lifestyles.

And these robots will feel absolutely no remorse killing as many humans as they can, if directed to do so.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

And the human population has been exploding to where it's almost a vertical line now on a graph. So we are going to have billions and billions and billions and billions of unemployed people. That's going to be interesting to see how that works out because say you own a company that makes cars, and you have zero employees. Everything is done by robots. Who is going to buy the cars? Matter of fact if every company used robots, who buys their product if the majority of people are unemployed? Will a new system be instituted where everything is free and nobody works like that movie "Wall-E"? That could happen I guess, but I really think it depends upon this upcoming election. If Hillary becomes next President, humans are doomed. We'll be lucky if mankind lasts even 15 years, I really believe that. She becomes POTUS without question WW3 nuke style will kick off. Obama is already setting up the pieces.

[catbertz]

Why do I suspect that the elites are just waiting for that moment to unleash some super-duper virus to kill 95% of the earths population. They dream of living like gods in their very own paradise, without all the rabble.

[Kirkwood]

Humans are needed as robot repairmen. Autonomous robots are easily damaged and far too expensive to simply recycle.