H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: >
> America is running out of jobs. It's time for a universal basic income. > > > http://theweek.com/article/index/267720/america-is-running-out-of-jobs-its-time-for-a-universal-basic-income > > . . . > That was pretty good. Here is an article linked to it, which is also good: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/robots-artificial-intelligence-jobs-automation I like the animated figure here showing how long it takes to fill Lake Michigan. This illustrates the power of Moore's Law. Quote: ". . . Suppose it's 1940 and Lake Michigan has (somehow) been emptied. Your job is to fill it up using the following rule: To start off, you can add one fluid ounce of water to the lake bed. Eighteen months later, you can add two. In another 18 months, you can add four ounces. And so on. Obviously this is going to take a while. At this point it's been 30 years, and even though 16,000 gallons is a fair amount of water, it's nothing compared to the size of Lake Michigan. To the naked eye you've made no progress at all. So let's skip all the way ahead to 2000. Still nothing. You have—maybe—a slight sheen on the lake floor. How about 2010? You have a few inches of water here and there. This is ridiculous. It's now been 70 years and you still don't have enough water to float a goldfish. Surely this task is futile? But wait. Just as you're about to give up, things suddenly change. By 2020, you have about 40 feet of water. And by 2025 you're done. After 70 years you had nothing. Fifteen years later, the job was finished. . . ." - Jed
