It's over a hundred years old. Elon Musk is ready to roll out humanoid robots to the rich. The A.I. which is almost not quite A.I. is here, sold like it was the latest greatest thing without question. Now they'll replace all these drivers, factory workers, office staff... a robot run corporation, devoid of h…
It's over a hundred years old. Elon Musk is ready to roll out humanoid robots to the rich. The A.I. which is almost not quite A.I. is here, sold like it was the latest greatest thing without question. Now they'll replace all these drivers, factory workers, office staff... a robot run corporation, devoid of humanity. You'll talk to robots on the phone, you'll talk to robots at the store, and robots which we should really call corporate technological replacements of human beings... will be the tech shift warned about for over 100 years now. E.M. Forster (A ROOM WITH A VIEW) wrote a little ditty called "THE MACHINE STOPS." You should check it out. It predates all the other dystopia books, including 1984. It's more accurate than all of them. From 1909.
In it, people worship THE MACHINE. They basically all have youtube channels and give their lectures and commentaries on everything. They live in cubicles where THE MACHINE delivers, and provides them with everything. Nobody is allowed to 'go outside' and those guilty of sins against THE MACHINE receive the ultimate penalty: they are cancelled and rendered HOMELESS. That's it. Well until THE MACHINE glitches and breaks down...
Ever seen the film METROPOLIS?
It's over a hundred years old. Elon Musk is ready to roll out humanoid robots to the rich. The A.I. which is almost not quite A.I. is here, sold like it was the latest greatest thing without question. Now they'll replace all these drivers, factory workers, office staff... a robot run corporation, devoid of humanity. You'll talk to robots on the phone, you'll talk to robots at the store, and robots which we should really call corporate technological replacements of human beings... will be the tech shift warned about for over 100 years now. E.M. Forster (A ROOM WITH A VIEW) wrote a little ditty called "THE MACHINE STOPS." You should check it out. It predates all the other dystopia books, including 1984. It's more accurate than all of them. From 1909.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
In it, people worship THE MACHINE. They basically all have youtube channels and give their lectures and commentaries on everything. They live in cubicles where THE MACHINE delivers, and provides them with everything. Nobody is allowed to 'go outside' and those guilty of sins against THE MACHINE receive the ultimate penalty: they are cancelled and rendered HOMELESS. That's it. Well until THE MACHINE glitches and breaks down...