DataB4 wrote:
^Interesting. That seems hard for me to imagine, maybe too far in the future? I'm not sure. I'm thinking of the services economy also, that even automation requires upkeep. So even if we had, say, automated farmers and miners, or some other process to get food and raw materials, I have a hard time seeing them lose economic value enough for them to be part of our basic standard of living without work. But then, I suppose in the old days, people said that about, say, clean drinking water, in places where it's now freely available.
For an example look at farming. Less than a century ago practically all jobs were farm jobs, by percentage, and now it's a minute fraction of people.
http://www.cityam.com/271806/decline-fa ... rys-lessonThat was just one "industry" that was disrupted, but with big data and the emergence of AI and self teaching/self learning systems a LOT of jobs are going to be footnotes in the history books. People won't be allowed to drive cars as they are dangerous on the roads compared to self-driving cars (maybe 20 years away tops), and when vechicles are automated what do you do with all the 1000s and 1000s of truck drivers and uber/taxi drivers?
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