Google robot is 'the end of manual labor'

[kentauros]

64. Well, I've both talked to many and worked for many.

And my point of view is based on that fact. If I was in the business of supplying any of them in any way, I'd have died of stress-induced illness a long time ago. None of them think logically, even with regards to competing.

I am grasping your point of view, but I see it as the typical futurist "everything will be wonderful!" point of view. We've seen far too many times how often futurists have been wrong. And yet, people continue to go back to them as if maybe they'll be right this time. The one thing futurists seem to have a difficult time factoring into their ideas is human psychology. I'm no expert on that, yet my observation is that topics like this one fail on human psychology every single time.

I did watch the latest NOVA the other night on this very topic. And even though they were less naive about it being a wonderful future with robots replacing everything, they still didn't factor in the psychology of how people will even consider having robots replace workers. It continued the idea that it's going to happen as they foresee it now. Reality is never like that.

I am not against robots in the workforce. I'm just not convinced it will be anything like it's being portrayed here. And really, I'd much rather see robots put to work cleaning up our environmental messes than replacing existing jobs. That's far more useful than even replacing fast food workers, and of a far more immediate need.