Right on Patrick
I think lab mice are gonna have a future in science for quite a while
- C57 Black mice, the mouse of choice for many studies
Future - Only scientists and engineers are left, tending to the
machines they have invented, designed and built.
Other folk are sort of seedy, decrepit and human, existing on hand
outs from the techno-class (a bit like Vonnegut's Player Piano)
Sound a bit familiar?
Maybe slightly off the point but:
What do scientists do by the way - I mean on the whole?
Here is an example of what some are doing - is it just me or does
this bit of research seem a tad pointless " I wonder what happens
to a mouse when you boil it's brains? Ahhh, I see, it screams,
twitches, then drops down dead. What could this mean? or rather
can we get another grant on the basis of this?"
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2013/05/20/
becoming-an-individual-twin-isnt-about-genetics-or-environment-but-
how-you-experience-them/
I found out some fascinating facts on reading Doctor Rat - a great
piece of research and entirely true:
On one level there are obvious symbolic parallels to the Nazi death
camps and other situations where absolute control is exercised by one
group over another without any sort of accountability. But more
disturbing...
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/187383520
On 20 May 2013, at 16:27, Lichty, Patrick wrote:
"Will robots take all the jobs?" -
http://boingboing.net/2013/05/17/will-robots-take-all-the-jobs.html
In 1998, Stanley Aronowitz from NYU got into a battle of Plenary
speakers in Chicago over his book, "The Jobless Future" at DePaul
University. It went something like this (But not exactly).
PL:"Dr. Aronowitz, are you saying that with automation, we will all
be set free from labour and be freed into a new leisure class?"
SA:"Well, I think about a NYC dock worker who has been periodically
jobless from mechanization. He is becoming part of the new leisure
class, and he seems to be adapting quite well. He spends his days
at the NYC library, following his own interests."
PL:"Evidently, you haven't visited Eastern Ohio or Appalachia. I
have family that would either become subsistence farmers or wind up
on public assistance, eating junk food and playing Xbox all day, if
they don't run afoul of crystal meth."
SA:"Mr. Lichty, have you actually READ my book?"
PL:"Yes, I have. Have YOU? I think your fallacy on Marx is entirely
wrong."
Moderator:"I think we should change the subject..."
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