How many science fiction stories are there, that warn of the replacement of the human race by robots?
It doesn’t look far-fetched to me. Keep shootin’ up with puberty blockers and see what happens to the birth rate.
But really! Having robots play games for you, so you can brag about the games you’ve won? What profound dishonesty. No wonder we’re ruled by Democrats.
It seems that some people are so enamored with technology that they all but flee from their own humanity.
When I was coming of age, there was a significant interest in living naturally. Much of this was unrealistic dreaming, by starry eyed idealists who felt that if we went back to non-mechanized farming, everything would be better. But there were a lot of people in the middle ground, who sought to make reasonable use of modern devices, but still sought to retain at least some connection to a simpler way of life. As I see recent developments, I really am starting to appreciate that we need to have at least some degree of connection to the life our grandparents knew.
My maternal grandparents were farmers, and I think that they even used horses to some extent. Their daughter, my mother, was an early adopter of computers and used them to make a living. That’s a lot of change in one generation: my mother was born when her mother was 26 years old, so when you consider that, it gives you an idea of just how rapid the change.
I started out doing construction work, in my teens, and make my living working on computerized devices, many of which were not even conceived of 25 years ago, and most of which were invented to solve security problems related to doing business over the Internet. In one sense, the computers have already taken over, because we must constantly work to insure security. The saying is: “we keep building the walls higher, and the bad guys keep learning to jump higher”. How far will it go?
I think Jules Verne had some qualms about this–in the 19th century.