Giant 3D printer could build homes in under a day

[webhead9707]

Well, robot uprising to me is not synonymous with human extinction.

But humanity is incredibly dysfunctional. Our governments are corrupt and wasteful. Machines, I imagine, would have little tolerance for that. They aren't governed by the same forces that govern us (i.e. greed, selfishness, etc).

A world, run, or at least guided by, intelligent, efficient, and selfless machines could be a much better world than the one we have now.

This is likely true, but (though I realize this is not a popular opinion) I still have hope for a world run or guided by intelligent, efficient, loving, caring, and selfless human beings.

 

[Thundercrack85]

It's a nice thought.

But with this species... I just don't know.

 

[webhead9707]

It's a nice thought.

But with this species... I just don't know.

I don't know either, but I'm holding out hope.

 

[The End]

You don't necessarily need a self-aware AI to run things. A very advanced computer (but not AI) could do about 90% of the job of government, I'm sure, without risking our rights.

The job of running a city efficiently, administration, power management, traffic management, managing the costs of essential services, etc, could be done by a computer much better than any human.

 

[chamber-music]

Some futurist on TV the other days was saying we aren't going to have enough jobs for everyone in the future.

Humans will always be need on the creative side. We will always need people to come up with ideas for thing.

 

[Teelie]

Jobs do shift, it's just that when they do not everyone can shift with them.

 

[The End]

I think the thing to look out for heading into the future is Moore's Law. Could maybe even do with its own thread because of the implications.

The number of transistors per chip doubles every 18 months, essentially computer power is improving exponentially.

You see this today in how common ipads and iphones and all these handheld devices are that are better and more powerful than the desktop computers of even the recent past.

Here's a great video that explains Moore's Law without any of the futurist speculation; just explaining the pure science of it all.

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Trying to grasp this stuff as a layman.

Fascinating; we're reaching the atomic size.

We're between 1 and 2 billion transistors on a good computer.

According to this guy (who's a smart ass professor) probably by 2025 there will only be 3 or 4 atoms of space and it will be a challenge to keep Moore's Law going at that point.

But then he talks about building computers with quantum mechanics, and qbits, and keeping Moore's Law going that way.

Very exciting. As good as our technology is now, picture how good its going to be by 2025 according to Moore's Law.

 

[Teelie]

I've heard of quantum computing but obviously that's a ways off before we start having them as home PC's, or even practical computers.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

now correct me if im wrong this thing essentially only builds the shell, so unless its a hell of a detailed model. someone is still going to have to insulate, plum, wire and decorate the house