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Fri 27 Jul, 2007 02:46 am
IMO robotics and A.I. will change our lives drastically within the next 50 years.
For good or bad i dont know, labor? a thing of the past! but what of the old fashioned workers?
A robot works perfect everytime, no mistakes or errors. Will this coupled with the internet and the ability to voice your opinion on goods and services (merchandise, work performance, anything you know? for example this forum & politics) make it hard for individuals to put forth anything less than a perfect product or performance?
Ill give 2 examples
Fast food, if a robot was "working" here, it would have no fatigue, no attention span, no bad moods, and to top it off it would be completely dedicated, it could keep a place spotless 24/7 no breaks just maintenance.
Will this effect the employability of future humans? Will the same leaps forward in progress keep the education and health of humans on high enough levels to keep everyone employed? will robots end the need for money altogether?Will companies outsource employment to robots completely if humans arent necessary for the job?
I shop on newegg, you can read reviews on every pc product imaginable, this means that i have the ability to "see" which product is good and bad before i buy it.I mean if i read that 17 different people bought a lcd monitor and it was broken when they recieved it i doubt any sane person would buy that monitor. What effect will various forms of this have on competition? buyers remorse, could it be a thing of the past? Will this create a "hyper-competitive environment" where every product is perfect?
One last question: What if robots were smart enough to build themselves, factories, mines, powerplants, etc.. In essence not needing humans to operate all the things we use in modern society, able to sustain themselves completely,building new robots from scratch , from the ground up, and provide free labor to humans, would we need money if everything was literally free? What point would money have if robots took over the "work" aspect of human life completely?
yeah im hella bored, and im thinking about random stuff.
same thing they said about the flying car about 50 years ago.
just dont hold your breath.
flakker wrote:same thing they said about the flying car about 50 years ago.
just dont hold your breath.
Baloney !
It seems like half the time I use the fone
I get a dam robot.
I hate robots because u can 't reason with them,
and when u curse at them thay don 't care, because thay r not alive.
Thay r also widespread thru out the manufacturing industries.
David
stick to the subject, manufacturing robots have been around 80 years and answering machines longer than that.
didnt revolutionise society like ogionik said it would.
FANUC robots still cant replicate themselves.
The subject is ROBOTS,
and I have STUCK to it.
calm down chief
nobody needs to get killed here
sheesh
You're right, flakker.
I know a lot on the robots field and their integration in the human society.
The main problem for them is that the human adaptation is much more difficult and complicated than it seems.
When you think what was written in the fifties and the sixties about how technologic the life was going to be in the year 2000, and what you see today, it makes me wonder that it will take at least five hundred years to have some robots..
Soon, if not already, we will be aware that we will need a lot of people to the robots' maintenance and that these people could be doing the task instead...
It would seem to me that the auto industry being almost totally automated did revolutionize society.
But, i would have to say that population levels will most likely fall due to what i would call a new enlightenment period. The higher the population the more risk for diseas IMO, (aids etc..) Now with kids like 11 years old being sexual active and the internet, ease of birth control, abortions etc.., i doubt people will have as many unwanted children and will see sex more as recreation than procreation, well even more so nowdays LOL.
My predictions are good though, my guess is that alot of people will die in the near future, due to m any circumstances, but i think humans will find a new age of information and knowledge and technology is advancing so fast we might not even face the propsect of death eventually.
I can see humans becoming space travelers, non violent ones at that.
I hope the greed of the few doesnt impact the well being of the many too much though, just look at bush. LOL, i can see everyone with little hovering robot assistants in the future, virtually super computers, a toolbox, and a PDA all in one.
Ahh, speculating sure is fun.
what about an iStick
its your mobile phone, mp3, clock, video player, PDA, web browser and self defense.
"oh no he's raping me, if only i had an iStick"
will robotics and A.I. change the world completely?
It has already happened. You have no idea what the world was like 50 years ago.