Darrell M. West

Imagine the scene: It's 2025 and a school student is visiting their careers adviser.

Student: Hey there, so do you have any advice for me in choosing a career?
Adviser: Well, we've monitored your performance over the last 13 years of schooling, your interests and abilities and used our software to predict which roles you would be best suited to.
Student: Ok, so whats the result?
Adviser: We are terribly sorry, but it seems you are what is commonly called a 'spare'
Student: Umm..a spare?
Adviser: Yes, a spare, or spare part. There is simply no job you can do that cannot be done better, cheaper and more reliably by a robot. Economically, you are unemployable, for ever.
Student: Oh. I'm somewhat disappointed.
Adviser: If it makes you feel any better, its completely normal. 60% of all students are spares, and we expect that percentage to rise to 80% over the next decade as the robots are improved.
Student: So what next?
Adviser: Have you considered prostitution? Its legal now and their is still a premium for human participants?

I cant wait for driver-less cars!
I can go to sleep on my way to work!
Make breakfast!
Make babies!

Could we programme these evil machines to not be evil? Maybe get them to come up with some good solutions to all these problems? Maybe they could be our saviours, if we weren't so negative?
Anyhow, I think it's time the World Government confiscated all the land and rented it all back. We simply have to stop using work, salary, pay or money (at all) and become a robot-backed, egalitarian leisure economy. Of course, The working class machines will have to work longer hours for inferior batteries.

But it may take a revolution or three.

All civilisations peak and then fall right? Anyone feeling peaky?

Publicada por Manuel Antão à(s) 1:30 da manhã… (mais)