I think you are right. I think we are looking at Terminator. All the
info coming out about how tech has been compromised.
I once read that prior to technology an oppressive king might have one
of his people contact you once a month. With technology the oppressive
king can watch you daily or even more often.
Just think Cyberdyne is right here in Chandler.
I hope we can learn, grow and do good things.
On 2017-03-10 15:21, Vara La Fey wrote:
> More Terminator than Logan's Run. (But great movies, both of them.)
>
> Autopilot cars are a perfect example. A convenient novelty in the
> near-term. Mandatory in the long-term.
>
> Now imagine a mandatory autopilot that can look you up in a national
> ID database and then write its own code about what it "thinks" you
> should be allowed to do thereafter.
>
> When people give up their autonomy, their freedom and ultimately their
> lives can go with it.
>
> You know who should be having a career resurgence right about now?
> Yeah, sci-fi authors. But people aren't thoughtful enough to support
> that kind of thing anymore.
>
>
> On 3/10/2017 8:21 AM, Keith Smith wrote:
>>
>> There will always be opportunity it just shifts. As we talked about
>> in a prior thread, once upon a time you could get a good manufacturing
>> job with little skill. Today you want a good paying job you have to
>> learn a skill like A/C, plumbing, etc.
>>
>> When I went to Disneyland 15 years ago some of the rides were
>> "automated", moving the seating platform and changing the display so
>> you actually felt like you were moving. Someone had to assemble that
>> ride. Someone had to engineer it. Someone had to manufacture it.
>> And someone had to transport it.
>>
>> In the greater scheme of things, things have not changed much in 15
>> years. The new minimum wage may make some alternatives more viable,
>> such as McDonald's replacing it's order taking staff with automated
>> ordering. Someone will need to create those automated ordering
>> devices. This is a shift in skills.
>>
>> Maybe at some point in the future we will become the Jetsons... and
>> I'm pretty sure I will be dead by then.
>>
>> If we continue to replace people with robots, then at some point our
>> economy will crash. At that point maybe the movie logan's run becomes
>> a reality. In the movie logan's run people are give a short life span
>> of about 30 years. Once they reach 30 they enter "renewal" which is
>> like a big bug zapper.
>>
>> Is logan's run our future?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2017-03-10 00:19, trent shipley wrote:
>>> A while ago I heard a futurist say that if you wanted your kid to
>>> make
>>> money in the future, they should pursue a creative career. He
>>> expected
>>> technology jobs to go the way of manufacturing jobs -- automated out
>>> of existence. The up side is that owners of capital will make MUCH
>>> higher profits, while consumers of IT will save some money. Also,
>>> access to IT should be more democratic since it will not rely as much
>>> on left brain thinking and scarce training.
>>>
>>> Microsoft is hardly alone in trying to make administrators and
>>> programmers obsolete, and the repressive leftist politics or
>>> dystopian
>>> fear mongering strike me as burying the lead--especially if you are a
>>> technologist whose job is in the cross-hairs of economic and
>>> technical
>>> history.
>>>
>>> Trent.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:34 PM Vara La Fey <varalafey@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh. Joy. A Cortana that can write its own spyware. Windows Skynet.
>>>> Upgrade today. Or else.
>>>>
>>>> - Vara
>>>> - www.facebook.com/vara.lafey [1]
>>>> On Mar 9, 2017 11:18 PM, "Victor Odhner" <vodhner@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm. Did my post get blocked?
>>>> __________________
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 9, 2017, at 16:59:21, Keith Smith <techlists@phpcoderusa.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yep what we need is smart computers. When all this started computers
>>>> were supposed to create a shorter work week. Now look what we have.
>>>> Racist computers - LOL!!
>>>>
>>>> On 2017-03-09 15:32, Anon Anon wrote:
>>>>
>>> http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genocidal-tweets-from-ai-chatbot-tay-2016-3
>>>> On Mar 9, 2017 15:17, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Really? you took this there.
>>>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Nathan England
>>>> <plug-discuss@nmecs.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2017-03-09 08:47, Anon Anon wrote:
>>>> How long until they teach this one how to create html filled with
>>>> explitives and hate speech?
>>>> I read this and about died laughing. All I could think of was
>>>> someone designing this software to act like any other liberal
>>>> online. Write basic html filled with explitives while spouting
>>>> hateful intolerant garbage, and it has artifical intelligence, just
>>>> like so many of today's liberals (brainwashed university
>>>> intellectualism).
>>>> -- Regards,
>>>> Nathan
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