Hi Billy, On Sep 16, 2014, at 10:12 AM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote:
> Many of Mr. Heck and Mr. Rogers's other arguments have a similar blind spot. > Modular construction techniques could allow us to build houses and apartment > buildings faster and more cheaply, with less waste. But could we all choose > bigger houses as a result, or keep remodeling because it is so cheap? > Additive manufacturing -- that's 3-D printing on an industrial scale -- may > allow us to make goods better and more cheaply, but what if we all just buy > more unnecessary stuff? > This isn't to say that the authors are wrong; the macroforces they discuss > seem unstoppable. With the right incentives, the future could be fantastic. > Just beware of the pesky humans getting in the way That's a fair summary of the prevailing view. Most people in Silicon Valley obsess over the positive material aspects of technological improvement, and gloss over the potentially negative human costs. That said, we are seeing more debates here about the ensure those dislocated by "progress" move forward in leading productive lives and making better choices: http://blog.pmarca.com/2014/06/13/this-is-probably-a-good-time-to-say-that-i-dont-believe-robots-will-eat-all-the-jobs/ > We have no idea what the fields, industries, businesses, and jobs of the > future will be. We just know we will create an enormous number of them. > Because if robots and AI replace people for many of the things we do today, > the new fields we create will be built on the huge number of people those > robots and AI systems made available. To argue that huge numbers of people > will be available but we will find nothing for them (us) to do is to > dramatically short human creativity. > > And I am way long human creativity. > The various responses are a great snapshot of the (still ongoing) conversation. I'm doing my bit to help nudge it along... https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/473630786923417600 -- Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
