All true, but I suspect a lot of givens are going to change in the next century. For example, what is money? Why can't machines repair and recharge themselves? We do, and we're just biological machines. Is the consumption society necessary, or even desirable?--david@luda.netpad4On 5/20/2013 2:32 PM, David Smith wrote:
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> On May 20, 2013, at 6:09 AM, "David H. Bailey" <dhbailey52@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> So just as humans have ongoing expenses for their employers, robots
>> will, too.
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> It's not "a robot" - it's an automated system. Interlocking parts, communicating at the speed of light. Humans can carry out the trash. What possible use to a robot is a slow-witted hairless ape?
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Ever pull the plug on a machine? Not until the robots can produce their
own power and have no need ever to be connected to anything will they be
able to do without the hairless apes.
But even with the automated systems, if it's only robots doing the work,
who's going to pay the bills? Who's going to produce the power? Who's
going to consume whatever it is the robots build? There will after all
be a finite number of robot parts that they will need to produce. After
that they will have no purpose other than to produce consumer goods.
No consumers, no market for consumer goods, no need for robots.
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David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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