From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: and visual library once again Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.14.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <1129861178.782874.87870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1129888684.681335.230450@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:51:57 +0200 Message-ID: <1wfz7htms48ls$.81ekw9cyh700$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Oct 2005 18:51:43 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: b93e115d.newsread2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=<:2Gb28M3n`a0B5i45NL;dQ5U85hF6f;djW\KbG]kaMhSE6H=g?m\gj_@PC\=\C On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:55:40 -0400, Bob Spooner wrote: > "Steve Whalen" wrote in message > news:1129888684.681335.230450@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >> Between 50 and 100 years from now there will be a massive deflationary >> cycle as powerful computers combined with cheap electricity and >> increasingly capable robots eliminate the cost of "labor" from the >> economy. Since the price performance of robots will begin to follow >> that of the computers that drive them, all the basics (food, clothing, >> shelter) will have their costs driven down toward zero. At some point >> the government will tax the robots and pay everyone $500 a month which >> will be more than enough to live on. You will be able to choose to >> program, or to watch TV, or to garden, or to serve others, or do >> nothing, just like in Star Trek . Then programming will mostly be >> done by people who do it because they love it, because nobody has to >> work just to survive. Depends on the definition of "survive." I bet, people storming Spain borders in Africa differ on this mater with you. So would you with the people living 100 years later. > This sounds a lot like the predictions of about 40 years ago that with > automation, etc. the biggest problem we would have now would be what to do > with all the extra spare time. And yet the average person is working more > hours now. Because, probably the only one thing Marx was right about, is that in these $500 only the amount of time spent by *human* beings counts. We trade with other humans, we don't with automata! And we are trading our lives for the lives of the others... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de