According to the latest report by the Pew research center, most Americans think that in 50 years almost all the work will be automated. Talk about technological unemployment are becoming increasingly popular, and experts ' opinions about who will lose their place apart. His vision of the situation expressed by the author of TechCrunch, Andrew Heikkila.
On one side of the opinion spectrum are the optimists: those who believe that even if robots are taking our jobs, we will always find a way to come up with a new one. On the other pessimists, waiting for the coming post-capitalism and the horrors of Orwell's dystopia.
This dichotomy usually revolves around considerations: whether unemployment is widespread. But more interesting is how rarely discuss if it should even happen. Why mankind hurtle into the future, where automated labor creates unnecessary products and kills human labor in the form in which we know it?
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For many, technology is the great equalizer. This was understood as early as the Luddites, who were convinced (and quite rightly) that the low-skilled labor and machinery will supersede the skill of the artisan during the industrial revolution.
A modern example of the same blockchain technology that decentraliserad everything from the banking system to social networking. Thus, in a world where Autonomous robots provide people with endless resources, money is no longer needed. Companies are no longer able to measure the value of a person by his individual contribution to the economic system.
Of course, attempts to bring this future will meet the resistance of those who now benefit from a centralized system, and not all industries will fall at the same time. But sooner or later all will fall. And if the new system will distribute resources evenly to all 7 billion people on Earth, as soon as there is overpopulation and starvation?
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Imagine that still managed to achieve some sort of utopia. Technology not only provide an unlimited source of labor, but also allow us to increase the resources to achieve a lasting peace, and finally to cure society of all ills. Then what? What will people in your free time if you don't have to compete for wealth and resources?
In a society where there is no more sense to try to earn more, to things or a way of life to Express themselves, in which one no longer owns, how many people will want to find a loophole and Express yourself otherwise, to prove their superiority in another way?
