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(67,782 posts)chia
(2,244 posts)Yes, I saw the Black Mirror episode, too. It's called Metalhead, if anyone wants to check it out.
Uncle Joe
(58,272 posts)are the major improvements in productivity.
If the people benefitted from this great, but way too many are being left behind, so as a relative handful of owners can make out like mega bandits.
That has been the case for decades, productivity has gone up but wages have for the vast majority have remained stagnant.
I see no reason as to why automizing ever increasing amounts of our societal obligations in regards to security to be any different.
Ultimately the oligarchs will control this as well if they don't already and life will become ever cheaper as a result.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,145 posts)And there were quite a few disturbing, if not outright terrifying, episodes of that show.
chia
(2,244 posts)On the other hand, I really enjoyed San Junipero.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,145 posts)At least in the final season.
San Junipero is a fan favorite, probably because it was the first to have a "happy" ending as opposed to a depressing one.
chia
(2,244 posts)care for those damaged by the darker episodes.
dameatball
(7,392 posts)patrolling and observation can be done more cheaply by drones I would think.
$........product developement
$........maintenance
$........monitoring
All this adds up
Uncle Joe
(58,272 posts)this will be the equivalent of a Sopwith Camel in regards to fighter jets.
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,813 posts)The surface has barely been scratched.
Auggie
(31,130 posts)poli-junkie
(996 posts)a la that scene in Star Wars until it topples over. Or just throwing a heavy blanket over the thing and watch it freak out.
Uncle Joe
(58,272 posts)poli-junkie
(996 posts)Bet you can still throw a blanket on it and hog-tie it with heavy wire.
Uncle Joe
(58,272 posts)as I stated on another post, this is the equivalent of a Sopwith Camel in regards to fighter jets.
It won't be that long before these things can do the hog tying.
poli-junkie
(996 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,272 posts)as we turn ever increasing amounts of war making over to "sanitary" automation, while our humanity is ever more disconnected from the act, we become more like them.
Auggie
(31,130 posts)dameatball
(7,392 posts)The Peter Ash series is pretty good if there are any fiction fans here that are unfamiliar with it.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)Some fascist invented them. What purpose these so called dogs? Induce fear, record or watch ,dominate and abuse people.
Just wait until a tyrant has hundreds or hundreds of thousands sniper rifle armed "dogs" roaming streets..
Fascists wet dream.
I hate fascism. I hate sociopaths and narcissists. They the only kind of people that would find things like this "Cool"lets make some.