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 >>> 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" wrote: >>>> >>>> Hmmm. Did my post get blocked? >>>> __________________ >>>> >>>> On Mar 9, 2017, at 16:59:21, Keith Smith >>>> 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" >>>> wrote: >>>> Really? you took this there. >>>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Nathan England >>>> 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 >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] >>>> -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you >>>> from >>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze >>>> button. >>>> Stephen >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] >>>> Links: >>>> ------ >>>> [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> -- Keith Smith >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> Links: >>> ------ >>> [1] http://www.facebook.com/vara.lafey >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss