Jon, regarding your politics post - My impression is that, as a general principle, proposals for radical change, of almost any kind, are not well-received by the general public, and that such change is more likely to occur if it's ideology, presentation, and development are broken into gradual and incremental steps (which are individually less threatening and more amenable to public digestion and acculturation) and if it is kept more in the realm of personal lifestyle, and less in the realm of public policy, where it is more vulnerable to obstruction by organized opposition (e.g. in the scenario you present, the broad adoption of an automated world would be more likely to occur if it is offered by private organizations that individuals could opt to join and demonstrate its benefits by example, than it would if it were pursued as a public policy of social engineering i.e. it is my impression that such change would have a better chance of staving off the political arena than it would of succeeding in it).
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