Exactly. I don't know who started the idea that robots would automate everything and we would never work again. That's preposterous.
Any new invention would either be a small improvement to an existing one, or too weak or niche to immediately be useful and would take years or decades to be implemented in daily life.
Take smartphones. The first smart phone came out in the early 90s. It was big, bulky, crappy, and expensive. It wasn't even connected to the internet until the early 2000s. The first actual mass market smartphone wasn't until iPhone in 2007 and even then it was seen only as a toy for rich people or a tool for business. Sure people had blackberry before, but you can't compare.
3d printing is another technology that will change the future eventually, but even though it's been around for at almost 40 years, it's honestly only just very recently that it's progressed past a failed science project by someone with way too much money or a toy for people to make useless crap.
Simply put, a new technology probably won't catch us by surprise and put everyone out of work from one day to the next. No one is going to come out tomorrow and say they built an all powerful ai and army of robots that can autonomously run an entire fortune 500 company. It'll all be gradual minor changes designed to make you more productive.
Besides, have you guys not been following the news about Cobol programmers? Government agencies and large corporations are still using technology that is over 60 years old. That's older than most of us here. Do you honestly think you'll be replaced by a robot in your lifetime? Maybe 15 generations from now
Exactly. I don't know who started the idea that robots would automate everything and we would never work again. That's preposterous.
Any new invention would either be a small improvement to an existing one, or too weak or niche to immediately be useful and would take years or decades to be implemented in daily life.
Take smartphones. The first smart phone came out in the early 90s. It was big, bulky, crappy, and expensive. It wasn't even connected to the internet until the early 2000s. The first actual mass market smartphone wasn't until iPhone in 2007 and even then it was seen only as a toy for rich people or a tool for business. Sure people had blackberry before, but you can't compare.
3d printing is another technology that will change the future eventually, but even though it's been around for at almost 40 years, it's honestly only just very recently that it's progressed past a failed science project by someone with way too much money or a toy for people to make useless crap.
Simply put, a new technology probably won't catch us by surprise and put everyone out of work from one day to the next. No one is going to come out tomorrow and say they built an all powerful ai and army of robots that can autonomously run an entire fortune 500 company. It'll all be gradual minor changes designed to make you more productive.
Besides, have you guys not been following the news about Cobol programmers? Government agencies and large corporations are still using technology that is over 60 years old. That's older than most of us here. Do you honestly think you'll be replaced by a robot in your lifetime? Maybe 15 generations from now