>>11838310>Every working adult in a modern America can afford a carThat’s wrong today and will only be ever increasingly more untrue in the future as more and more of the population grows to depend on a fleet of self driving ubers for transportation in place of individual car ownership
The future isn’t some fucking jetsons fantasy of middle class white families living in plenty and luxury, it’s a crowded place where human labor is cheap and tech, while drastically superior in results, is available only for the rich
>>11838314It’s ironic that I’ve got one guy arguing robots will do everything, and another arguing they won’t do anything
Coding is obviously not gonna be automated any time soon, that’s obviously trolling.
The informational aspects of healthcare like diagnostics and treatment plans are well suited to automation and can already be done better with AI than with expert human opinions, as our understanding of genetics advances this will be overwhelmingly true. And, the tech for precision operations is still not quite there but by 2030 robots will be better at surgery than any surgeon, the idea of a person slicing you open to try and fix you will sound as primitive and barbaric as letting someone’s blood.
Yet, there’s information work that can be easily centralized and referred to computer, there’s precision work where a millimeter is the difference between recovery and death or paralysis, and then there’s grunt work that doesn’t need to be precise and needs to be done on a large scale. And while it’s nice to imagine “a factory of robots building other robots” it’s a magical thinking fantasy and it’s certainly not even close to realistic for 2020. In the meantime it’s vastly cheaper and more resource efficient to train the millions of people who are out of work due to automation to do the simple tasks like wound care and cleaning.
