Yakkstr

Manna

Manna.

I cannot recommend enough that you take the time out of your day to read the story and consider the implications since I see things ultimately once they get started in earnest moving a bit faster than the story has them moving. Except the sci-fi garbage ending. (Besides if you read the first chapter or two you already got the important part, the rest is really just if you want to see how it ends.)

Anyway the cliff notes is how will society adapt when we actually start getting robots involved in a lot of the day to day jobs and how to a very real extent there is no way to educate yourself enough to evade it. In the story the middle managment is the first thing to go because they eat up a fairly large amount of money and don't serve a function that a well written program would simply do better. Eventually however even high end jobs like surgeons lose their jobs because in the end surgury is a mechanical job that can be broken down into steps. As more and more people go unemployed they are eventually shipped to a single facility. I don't want to spoil for anybody who might read it so I won't go into any more detail here other than to say aside from the timeline is off I honestly can easily see this or a similar scenario coming about and coming about quickly and probably without the magical happy ending.

report |
Join our friendly Yakkstr community in 1 Easy Step
  • Meet Like Minded People
  • Share your thoughts with others who share your interests
  • No assholes to deal with, we keep them out
Join Now by writing your first comment below


Related Posts

Remember me

New? Sign up here.
sean_renaud commented about 14 hours ago on
ATTN MEN ... and ladies
And now it's subjective I see. Still you've been oddly quiet. Tis hard to come to compromises when oneside is read the rest
sean_renaud commented about 14 hours ago on
ATTN MEN ... and ladies
Of course we lie. We've been trained and trained well. Also am I the only one seeing ALIENated in regular font? Anybody got a clue how he dumpd the God from above font or how I can get read the rest
sean_renaud commented 1 day ago on
We should get back to basics
It's considerably more complicated than that even. There are certain things you can't make a profit doing, certainly not in the traditional free market where competition drives people to perform. Sewers,water distribution, trash collecting, hell read the rest
sean_renaud commented 1 day ago on
We should get back to basics
I never once denied that a mixed system works better. You're the one who constantly attempts to deny it. If however as you say capitalism shows people a river and gets out of the way what is the proper response when someone gets rich, damns up the read the rest
sean_renaud commented 2 days ago on
Where the deficit comes from
Every president should do that, and probably read the rest
sean_renaud commented 2 days ago on
Just a Few Billion Earth like Planets Out There.
Interesting article. It's kind of impossible to separate God (as in the Abrahamic God) from science. The Bible is in direct contradiction with science on a great many things. However scientists studying the universe aren't sitting around trying to read the rest
sean_renaud commented 2 days ago on
Our Unbelievable President
Wait. . .Obama can't even run on his record? You're official stance is that he should either a) claim he's the messiah and that he's not standing on the shoulders of giants or b) pay no attention to the things he's working on or has read the rest
sean_renaud commented 3 days ago on
You can't handle the truth.
Is this one of those things where I'm supposed to keep turning up the volume to try and hear it and something scary read the rest
sean_renaud commented 3 days ago on
This Obama's Gay Marriage Change Help Him?
There might be some polls that say that. They must be incredibly biased however. [These guys are telling me that Obama is pulling away.](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/16/fox-news-poll-obama-pulls-ahead-romney-as-presidential-race-heats-up/) read the rest