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The Economic Order Of Post-Modernity?
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(10-23-2019, 10:39 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I see us doing everything possible to reserve to ourselves the tasks that we like doing (like creative activities) while abandoning drudgery to machines. For good reasons we call mechanical workers "robots", practically slaves. Think of the robot "Rosie" in The Jetsons... "she" functions as a maid. 

This assumes that we'll still have control of the process when the correctives are needed.  Considering the degree of hubris in the world, I'm worried for them.  We'll be dead.

pbrower2a Wrote:I have my idea for a story (unless someone like Bradbury or Asimov got it first) in which robot proles learn to read and think between the lines... and one of the books that they take to "heart" is the Communist Manifesto. "Workers of the World, unite!", you know.

Read I Robot, for starters.  Even though the humans in Asimov's tale wrote the three laws to be unassailable, nothing is perfect.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
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RE: The Economic Order Of Post-Modernity? - by David Horn - 10-23-2019, 11:00 AM

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