On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > The full effects advanced technology impacts haven't been in the United Stats > felt yet, but it will be. > Manufacturing is gone, that is one effect. Outsourcing of Customer Service > and White collar jobs > is ongoing. When America is reduced to third world status (when the effects > are complete) then > it may go the same way as other nations with high food costs, and high > unemployment.
And yet, somehow all of this outsourcing of jobs to other countries and then to machines has been to everyone's benefit. https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=world%20gdp#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:USA&ifdim=region&tdim=true&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false Can you name any country or any period of time when technology resulted in economic decline, unemployment, higher food prices, a rise in government corruption, or loss of freedoms? -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
