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You need to know where the real economy is
That is the energy sector. Automation requires energy and lots of it. With out energy you don't have automation. For the energy sector to work you need lots of workers. These are very well paid workers who support the frivolous industries like entertainment. You put rig workers in isolated places for 2 week periods then give them their $10,000 paycheque and they blow it like complete idiots.

The day energy is created freely due to self maintaining automation is the day the world truly changes.

The next contributor to the economy is skilled trades workers and engineers. With out them you don't have the infrastructure that allows todays automation to be a benifit. This comes from building to roads to vehicles to everything that allows the economy to function on a global level. If you can't function on a global level there really is little need for automation. If automation replaces these workers again the world will change in very big way.

Pharmacutical companies as you mention in a another post are one of those frivolous industries right now. In all honesty if infrastructure and energy were freely available due to self maintaining automation what need would there ever be to pay for drugs? Doctors and scientists would create them just to be doing something and the automated world we have would manufacture and distribute for them.

Personally I don't think this world will happen anytime soon. Give 3 or 4 hundred years and if we haven't killed ourselves off it could happen then.
Posted by: voska   Posted on: 03/14/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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MCDonalds is even entering the outsourcing game  JasonL31 | 03/11/05
Automation reduces potential errors.  B.O.F.H. | 03/12/05
I've made this point for years.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/12/05
It's not that new  IT_User | 03/13/05
Hmmm, yes and no...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/13/05
Its called Malthusian Economics...  Dave F_z | 03/13/05
Or WAR!!! Why create a whole new source when we can  Laff | 03/13/05
Growth industries  Roger Ramjet | 03/14/05
Butt don't all those jobs you listed depend on an economic  Laff | 03/14/05
Interrelationships  Roger Ramjet | 03/14/05
Not true, all of them are declining.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/14/05
Here's where I'd direct a youth today  voska | 03/14/05
Sorry but no...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/14/05
Rise of the Machines  osreinstall | 03/14/05
And the flip side - people OUGHT to work terrible worthless mind numbing  quietLee | 03/14/05
Were you trying to make a point?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/14/05
For the sake of argument....  maxo_z | 03/15/05
er.. .60 ... not 6.00  maxo_z | 03/15/05
In some sense I.T. has been about this  Mark Miller | 03/12/05
I would also like to see a 30 hour work week.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/05
Nope....like IT the future for maintaining automation  Laff | 03/13/05
You know if it ever got to that point  voska | 03/14/05
Seems I remember a story about a man who was working  Laff | 03/13/05
Some jobs but not all  Chad_z | 03/12/05
There is what we hope, and then there is REALITY or what is  Laff | 03/13/05
I heard this same thing when I was a kid  voska | 03/14/05
Even if that is true I do not know if that will remain so.  Laff | 03/14/05
You need to know where the real economy is  voska | 03/14/05
3 to 4 hundred years!?! Seriously?  Laff | 03/14/05
Greed will prevent it  voska | 03/14/05
When all is said and done...I am but a cog iin the machine  Laff | 03/14/05
As long as we're talking some day.  Anton Philidor | 03/14/05
Both are smaller than diminished innovation  MyLord | 03/14/05
Okay what gives.  IT Scion | 03/14/05

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