Will robots take our place at work, making each us unemployed?
Or they be our slaves?. doing our job for us and making us wealthy?
And if so, will we still need capitalism?
Will there be frequent flyer miles to the moon and beyond?
Will we kill our planet from all the contamination and have to live underground?
What kind of new gadgets will we be running to the nearest store for?
Will we eat meals made at a nanotech lab?
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| Re: How will technology shape our lives in 50 years. |
Interesting question.
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| Will robots take our place at work, making each us unemployed? |
I program robots so I'm not too worried about that. But non-skilled labor will take more of a hit, just as it is now.
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Or they be our slaves?. doing our job for us and making us wealthy?
And if so, will we still need capitalism? |
They're already our slaves, doing our jobs for us, making us rich. We'll need capitolism for ever. (Unless we can actually do what they're portraying in Star Trek TNG.)
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Will there be frequent flyer miles to the moon and beyond?
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Most definately. It's already starting in the process of comercial space travel. (X Prize)
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| Will we kill our planet from all the contamination and have to live underground? |
Not likely. The earth is very strong and can probably take just about anything we're prepared to throw at it.
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What kind of new gadgets will we be running to the nearest store for? |
The best question of all. If you're over twenty, look back only ten years and tell me what you remember as being the hot items.
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| Will we eat meals made at a nanotech lab |
If you're suggesting nanotech as the industry de jur, then quite possibly. If you're talking nanotech as the source/provider for food, I think many many things will be controlled, developed, built via nano tech.Well yes, robots are our slaves... to some extent. I mean we really haven't had yet revolution in that area.
Maybe you'll agree with me that robotics is in a similar stage now as computers were back in the 70's. Back then nobody had a computer in their house. Maybe a calculator.
It was a technology reserved for big companies and government organizations.
Today you can probably buy one of those vacuum cleaner robots, but for less than you can buy a car you can't buy a robot that will make your bed or serve you breakfast. Farms still need people and you certainly don't see automated machines at the construction site yet.
Many years ago before slavery was abolished. Some folks lived quite well. Africans and African descendants plowed the white man's land, made their food, did all the house chores and basically made them wealthy. The economic system back then was quite different.
What will happen when robots do what slaves did back then? When we don't need people to plow the land?
Free food for everybody? More leisure time?
Well I think as technology advances we will use more and more things to do things for us...instead of having to do it ourselves, which in the end will all make us very lazy and maybe a huge fat race that can't even move properly I don't know! But yeah I think more and more things will get invented to "make life easier" I mean the internet is something thats been around for a while now but the internet itself has make lots of things easier. Finding out what you want or shopping online or whatever, don't have to go to a library or a supermarket or whatever.
