Future Technologies

[Spider-Fan83]

I want transporters and holodecks!

I am not even asking for holodeck level tech, I'd saddle for Ironman style interactive holographic tech...

 

[NickNitro]

That's absolutely in our future. We already have keyboards we can interact with that are projections.

http://www.amazon.com/Celluon-Magic-Laser-Projection-Keyboard/dp/B005ES6E6W

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Well, that's one... Kurzweilian way of looking at it.

I see hundreds of millions losing their jobs to increasingly advanced (but not particularly intelligent) robots in the next fifty years, which will result in unprecedented social upheaval. Not to mention the most radical economic restructuring since the Industrial Revolution, and that's without even going into the machines being able to think for themselves.

Once the machines achieve self-awareness, there's no telling what will happen.

If everyone were assigned a robot we could all live a work-free life while spending what the robot earns.

But greedy people will never allow that. They will hire the robots while firing the human workforce.

 

[Alex_Spider]

If everyone were assigned a robot we could all live a work-free life while spending what the robot earns.

But greedy people will never allow that. They will hire the robots while firing the human workforce.

Why assign a robot to everyone? And who would pay a robot to do a job? Do the car industries today provide any income to the robots for assembling car parts?

If we handle this cleverly, we could live a life-time of comfort and leisure, while the machines would work 24/7 to provide easily for goods and services and the maintenance of the city's energy grid.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Why assign a robot to everyone? And who would pay a robot to do a job? Do the car industries today provide any income to the robots for assembling car parts?

If we handle this cleverly, we could live a life-time of comfort and leisure, while the machines would work 24/7 to provide easily for goods and services and the maintenance of the city's energy grid.

Well the machines in car factories do labor that would usually earn a human money but instead of giving that money to a fired worker the owner keeps it for themselves.

 

[Alex_Spider]

Well the machines in car factories do labor that would usually earn a human money but instead of giving that money to a fired worker the owner keeps it for themselves.

Well, that's capitalism son, deal with it
No just kidding. I can see your example being implemented in a transition phase until a full replacment of the human labor occurs, so that there is no chaos out in the streets and the fired workers can buy food and goods.