What people forget though is that the technology available to us is a form of wealth. I mean just how much would something along the level of an iPad have cost in 1979, imagining for a minute that such technology would have even been possible back then? It would have run into the hundreds of millions of dollars,…

I distinctly remember my dusty old fart elbow-patched teachers in the late 70's telling us kids that by the time we left school there would be no jobs because computers will have taken them all. We all know how that turned out. Computers have revolutionized the world. Any kind of automation will increase productivity…

We keep forgetting the other benefit of robots. They don’t ask for wages, this will drive the cost of goods and services down to the point where it’s feasible to provide mass welfare for the populous. When I say things will get cheaper, I mean a shit ton cheaper. Power generation/transportation/mass production all…