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fudbaws

Post subject: The end is nigh

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:30 pm

Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:09 pm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8358562.stm

A few years away i know, but what do we do then? This phenomenon, 'technological unemployment' is something we can't stop! We can't all be call centre advisers!!!! That is the problem with this recession, even when we recover how do we stop scientific progress from upsetting the present paradigm? Something new is inevitable. The present system has a few decades left, but when technology starts eating into the professional professions like doctors and the like it is over. If you think that is far fetched scientists have already invented a machine to perform heart bypass surgery with more accuracy than our best doctors. The reason it has not came in yet is due to economies of scale. But once the scale of these machines increase, the cost will come down, economically it will become impossible to ignore, your physician becomes unemployed - GAME OVER.

It will be more complicated than that of course. Simplicity for arguments sake. I hope I am wrong.

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Sussex

Post subject: Re: The end is nigh

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:46 pm

Joined: Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:30 pm
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Location: 1066 Country

fudbaws wrote:

I hope I am wrong.

Don't worry, the likes of you and me are irreplaceable. :wink:

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meltingsmoke

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Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:54 pm

Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:37 pm
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Location: brighton and hove

I probly be an old pensioner or dead by then.
I would not worry about it

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dagger

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Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:10 pm

Joined: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:39 am
Posts: 246

I thought we were all robots anyway.

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Doom

Post subject: Re: The end is nigh

Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:52 am

Sussex wrote:

fudbaws wrote:

I hope I am wrong.

Don't worry, the likes of you and me are irreplaceable. :wink:

Have you never watched Total Recall?

I can see it now......

Customer - Oi you synthetic c**t take us to Bar Faketits

Johnny Cab Driver - I don't understand the question, please re-phrase

Customer - Just drive will ya and no going the long way

Johnny Cab Driver - Ok, Oiltin Close by the fence it is then?

Customer - NO you stupid piece of Hong Kong hardware, Bar Faketits

Johnny Cab Driver - Accessing Johnny Johnny nav chip

Customer - Wot time ya finishing then?

Johnny Cab Driver - I'm sorry, I do not understand the question

Customer - Just shutup or I'll melt ya wiv me lighter.

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GBC

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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:07 am

Joined: Sat Dec 25, 2004 4:28 pm
Posts: 8998
Location: London

dagger wrote:

I thought we were all robots anyway.

You're thinking of the GMB National Organiser. :wink:

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gusmac

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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:57 pm

Joined: Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:31 pm
Posts: 12045
Location: Aberdeen

dagger wrote:

I thought we were all robots anyway.

No, we're just doing their work till they get invented :oops:

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grumpy

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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:21 pm

Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:33 pm
Posts: 1357
Location: grangemouth

just been to see 2012, and you're right "the end IS nigh" :wink:

On the bright side we won't need a WAV till god knows when :lol:

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