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Re: Technologists agree on robotics/AI tech impact, disagree on social/economic impac

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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis View Post
In the late nineteenth/early 20th century the experts were concerned about how big cities were going to deal with the ridiculous amount of horse poop from all of the carriage traffic. Luckily, our fearless engineering forefathers solved that problem.

Technology has changed a lot in the past 100 years and so far Mr. Market and friends have done a reasonable job managing the economy and employment levels with continued technological change. I suspect that this will continue to be true.
On the other hand, horse-drawn carriages were never poised to eliminate entire industries.

Things change. Tech can be wildly unpredictable in its social effects-- ultimately the only truly accurate predication for the future will be made by us, the people who will live in it.
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