As people become less valuable in the work force we will end up with a have vs have not society like most 3rd world countries. The alternative is socialism which is what most young Americans want anyway. Goes against all my values but I see it as the future in developed countries.
Observations on Technology and the future
- Thread starter mbacfp
- Start date
- Status
Originally Posted By: Alfred_B
That's so true.
Originally Posted By: KGMtech
Humanity will be easier to control in the future, our eyes glued to a screen is the perfect mode of those seeking behaviour manipulation.
Control news & information = control your population.
Like this ...
Humanity will be easier to control in the future, our eyes glued to a screen is the perfect mode of those seeking behaviour manipulation.
Control news & information = control your population.
Like this ...
Originally Posted By: mbacfp
I read somewhere the car companies were in favor of self driving cars as they expect better profitability in having people rent vs owning a car (10+ years). Were does ownership reside in a self driving car ultimately? Will be it regulated by Government and Companies will lobby for a rental model or will they allow for private ownership? Interesting times.
If everyone had a self driving car, and the technology was so good that cars never got in wrecks guess that means body and repair shops would probably become extinct.
I read somewhere the car companies were in favor of self driving cars as they expect better profitability in having people rent vs owning a car (10+ years). Were does ownership reside in a self driving car ultimately? Will be it regulated by Government and Companies will lobby for a rental model or will they allow for private ownership? Interesting times.
If everyone had a self driving car, and the technology was so good that cars never got in wrecks guess that means body and repair shops would probably become extinct.
If you live in a city and can summon a driverless vehicle 95+ % of the time for an affordable price why buy a car at all?
Either rent or cab.
With the advent of cab hailing services like UBER/Lyft combined with self driving tech- the technology exists for your car to simply to go to work for you when you aren't using it.
Driverless tech can really help traffic jams by not slowing down to look at things like wrecks and pacing the entire traffic network at the proper speeds for max efficiency.
Think of all the downtime most cars have - it could theoretically become part of a pool then return home to meet your schedule as required.
UD
Either rent or cab.
With the advent of cab hailing services like UBER/Lyft combined with self driving tech- the technology exists for your car to simply to go to work for you when you aren't using it.
Driverless tech can really help traffic jams by not slowing down to look at things like wrecks and pacing the entire traffic network at the proper speeds for max efficiency.
Think of all the downtime most cars have - it could theoretically become part of a pool then return home to meet your schedule as required.
UD
Just go to where there are kids....watch what they are going....head down on the phone. These kids will be running the world someday....scary thought. One thing for sure, we need to slow the population growth, especially as we try and automate everything which will lead to less jobs and higher unemployment. But, I've never seen a robot replace a 24 inch broken water main, or re-wire a house. My wife has been beating my daughter, 13, over the head about how she just HAS to go to college. I pull her aside after those conversations and tell her to do something you like and college isn't for everybody but DO SOMETHING. If you want to be an electrician, plumber, mechanic....fine, but learn a trade and do something. I needed an electrician to help me re-wire something at the house and she was there. I told her, you know what I had to pay just to get him to show up? 65 bucks. Took him 30 minutes to fix the problem, so that's 130 bucks an hour. He had a trade and didn't go to college. College is not the answer to everything and most importantly...take PRIDE in your work and it will show and that you can take to the bank.
Things are they way they are because nowadays it is harder to support a family, regardless of where you are. Cost of living and the standard have gone up.
You will no longer be able to get "free" service unless a machine do it without human involvement, even African labor will be expensive eventually, and we'll have "machine learning" do a lot of simple stuff for us and then we'll "self service" on the complicate for machine but easy for human stuff.
Union will be a history when everything is automated. The only low cost labor left would be those that can't go wrong rather than required skills. Machine will be able to put together mechanical and electrical stuff safer, cheaper, and better. Company will hire 10 engineers to keep the machines running and eliminate 1000 repetitive human labors.
Those high cost labor for trades? I'd imagine things will be standardized and DIY. No more soldering, no more hard to do work for home maintenance, all the components will be design for DIY and "click together". Yes the parts will cost 10x more but it will still be cheaper than hiring a guy to come out and then solder in something. Oh, every connection and wiring will be fail safe so if there is a short things will just shut off. If you can't figure out where things go wrong, throw the whole thing out and replace the whole set instead of troubleshooting. Remember: labor is expensive, parts are free. Then we have those prefab building material that are done in a factory by computer and machine, from CAD drawing, deliver to the job site and Lego into places. The only thing that may need a lot of human is the foundation.
Retail will lose A LOT of real estate, and most perishable shopping will be done online and then deliver to your local locker on your block or building, refrigerated. Non perishable will be drone delivered and dropped at your door or to your GPS location. People will rarely shop because of the 20% cost to support a B&M store vs maybe 5% for drone delivery.
Driverless cars will be doing kids drop off, adult drop off, delivery duty, charging, kids pick up, adult pick up, charging, delivery, car wash, every week day. It'll have a fridge port that pick up from store and keep refrigeration for all your grocery pickup.
All the above to squeeze out another 2-3 hours a day for the work force, so they'll work another 2-3 hours, or commute another 2-3 hours in a driver less car while working or sleeping, to catch up with the sky high cost of living. Those who possess most of the assets (i.e. the top 0.00000000001%) will make most of the extra productivity from real estates and other assets appreciation.
You will no longer be able to get "free" service unless a machine do it without human involvement, even African labor will be expensive eventually, and we'll have "machine learning" do a lot of simple stuff for us and then we'll "self service" on the complicate for machine but easy for human stuff.
Union will be a history when everything is automated. The only low cost labor left would be those that can't go wrong rather than required skills. Machine will be able to put together mechanical and electrical stuff safer, cheaper, and better. Company will hire 10 engineers to keep the machines running and eliminate 1000 repetitive human labors.
Those high cost labor for trades? I'd imagine things will be standardized and DIY. No more soldering, no more hard to do work for home maintenance, all the components will be design for DIY and "click together". Yes the parts will cost 10x more but it will still be cheaper than hiring a guy to come out and then solder in something. Oh, every connection and wiring will be fail safe so if there is a short things will just shut off. If you can't figure out where things go wrong, throw the whole thing out and replace the whole set instead of troubleshooting. Remember: labor is expensive, parts are free. Then we have those prefab building material that are done in a factory by computer and machine, from CAD drawing, deliver to the job site and Lego into places. The only thing that may need a lot of human is the foundation.
Retail will lose A LOT of real estate, and most perishable shopping will be done online and then deliver to your local locker on your block or building, refrigerated. Non perishable will be drone delivered and dropped at your door or to your GPS location. People will rarely shop because of the 20% cost to support a B&M store vs maybe 5% for drone delivery.
Driverless cars will be doing kids drop off, adult drop off, delivery duty, charging, kids pick up, adult pick up, charging, delivery, car wash, every week day. It'll have a fridge port that pick up from store and keep refrigeration for all your grocery pickup.
All the above to squeeze out another 2-3 hours a day for the work force, so they'll work another 2-3 hours, or commute another 2-3 hours in a driver less car while working or sleeping, to catch up with the sky high cost of living. Those who possess most of the assets (i.e. the top 0.00000000001%) will make most of the extra productivity from real estates and other assets appreciation.
Last edited:
Calm down everyone (about self-driving cars anyway, you can freak out over all else....), self-driving cars are a FAIL. They can't handle
1. Construction Zones (orange cone nightmarish slaloms)
2. Night driving
3. Rain or Snow or Sleet or Fog
4. Any road with unclear lane markings and/or confusing lane shifting.
We humans will handle all that and continue to have plenty of accidents. Not to worry.
1. Construction Zones (orange cone nightmarish slaloms)
2. Night driving
3. Rain or Snow or Sleet or Fog
4. Any road with unclear lane markings and/or confusing lane shifting.
We humans will handle all that and continue to have plenty of accidents. Not to worry.
Originally Posted By: oil_film_movies
Calm down everyone (about self-driving cars anyway, you can freak out over all else....), self-driving cars are a FAIL. They can't handle
1. Construction Zones (orange cone nightmarish slaloms)
2. Night driving
3. Rain or Snow or Sleet or Fog
4. Any road with unclear lane markings and/or confusing lane shifting.
We humans will handle all that and continue to have plenty of accidents. Not to worry.
Ai as of even a year ago the existing was already excellent.
As a test I took an engineer at our companies P85d out for a night at the movies and coming back it drove itself 24 miles uphill on the 49 at night in the rain going from a 4 lane to 2 lane blacktop. From Auburn California to Grass Valley.
Terrain is hilly and at at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains so it had to deal with curve dips and hills.
The biggest problem I faced that night twas my inability to trust it.
UD
Calm down everyone (about self-driving cars anyway, you can freak out over all else....), self-driving cars are a FAIL. They can't handle
1. Construction Zones (orange cone nightmarish slaloms)
2. Night driving
3. Rain or Snow or Sleet or Fog
4. Any road with unclear lane markings and/or confusing lane shifting.
We humans will handle all that and continue to have plenty of accidents. Not to worry.
Ai as of even a year ago the existing was already excellent.
As a test I took an engineer at our companies P85d out for a night at the movies and coming back it drove itself 24 miles uphill on the 49 at night in the rain going from a 4 lane to 2 lane blacktop. From Auburn California to Grass Valley.
Terrain is hilly and at at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains so it had to deal with curve dips and hills.
The biggest problem I faced that night twas my inability to trust it.
UD
Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
The computers will be attached to our brains someday. We'll be writing posts with our thoughts. And it won't involve cutting our skull open either. It will be done non-evasively by nano robots that go in through a syringe. They go in and build the computer on our brains. It will be like a microscopic construction site going on up there.
Knowing my luck I'll need to reboot mine all the time.
The computers will be attached to our brains someday. We'll be writing posts with our thoughts. And it won't involve cutting our skull open either. It will be done non-evasively by nano robots that go in through a syringe. They go in and build the computer on our brains. It will be like a microscopic construction site going on up there.
Knowing my luck I'll need to reboot mine all the time.
- Status
