Friends,
I just finished watching a show on how flax cloth was made, starting from flax seed. It shows the growing, harvesting and processing required to produce the plants. Then it showed the process of transforming raw flax into fibers for making thread and then from thread to fabric.
HOLY COW.
What a process!
I can only stand in amazement at the persistence and genius of our ancestors. Who, in their right mind, would look at a plant and think "Ya know, I could turn that into a loverly dress!"
Then, once having figured out the process, who would actually want to do the back breaking tedious work of it?
We have it good today! What a wonderful time to be alive.
Regards,
Alexander
There are still a lot of people doing backbreaking, tedious work, though, unfortunately. Where are our robot slaves?!
Who needs a ropot slave when you can have a persecom. ( form the hit manga Chobits)
For all of you out there who have no idea what I am talking about. a persecom is a human shaped and sized computer, the only distingishing feature about them is their input and output ports they have instead of ears. The best thing about them is that they come FULLY equiped, you know what I mean.
Oh my goodness.......
Duke
Quote: There are still a lot of people doing backbreaking, tedious work, though, unfortunately. Where are our robot slaves?!
We have people working on that 24 hours a day. The current natural state of affairs violated my third law of computing, which is:
If a thing can be automated, it should be automated.
Many manual labor tasks fall into this category.
Regards,
HM Alexander of All automated Hanover
I do wish they would work faster.
I'm just kidding, thay are working hard enough as it is, I mean look how far weve come in the last 100 years.
HM Alexander of Hanover,Feb 4 2005, 01:00 AM Wrote:Quote: There are still a lot of people doing backbreaking, tedious work, though, unfortunately. Where are our robot slaves?!
We have people working on that 24 hours a day. The current natural state of affairs violated my third law of computing, which is:
If a thing can be automated, it should be automated.
Many manual labor tasks fall into this category.
Yes, but Your Majesty, one could argue that such automation leaves many without sufficient means to feed their families, as there are only so many "high-tech" jobs available, and even if people are operating those machines, if 1 machine does the work of ten, what do you do with the other 9 that are out of work?
Not saying we shouldn't automate, but still...what to do?
-Rob
Rob,
One could also argue that the moon is made of green cheese.
Such massive automation would drive the cost of goods through the floor, and then sustinance would be almost mana from heaven and thus, automation serves all.
The economics of the future look nothing like that of today. A persons "worth" to society would not be defined in how his producitve output is measured and valued.
Regards,
HM Alexander of all Hanover
Yeah robot sex slaves would be cool too.
Sorry that was totally inapropriate.