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WCDT 15-19 August 2011 (1991-95)
dragontart:
--- Quote ---In the real world though, robotics could indeed take over some of the jobs that people do now. I'm fairly convinced they won't any time soon though, because people need to work to eat, and taking away more jobs would be a terribly unpopular idea.
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This is the main idea of a world where nobody has to work and gets everything for free because nobody needs to be paid for it, in easy terms. I forgot if there's a name for that concept. This does of course not work in the real world with real humans.
wrwight:
Yeah, robot automation seems like it would fit perfectly in a socialist-type society, where the general idea is that society as a whole benefits from everyone's work, rather than individuals only. Socialism is a tricky thing though, and I think robot automation for the general benefit of a society is equally as tricky if not more so.
Arancaytar:
--- Quote from: TheBiscuit on 19 Aug 2011, 14:22 ---Maybe Marigold uses Momo as a file repository, considering her frankly amazing amount of storage. I know technology is a bit more advanced in the world of QC, but that's a lot. The biggest hard drives currently on sale seem to be about 4TB, and you could maybe stuff about five of them into a single PC if you wanted to... which still gives Momo a capacity about five times what can reasonably be achieved in a single device in our world.
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To house the sort of intelligence and consciousness that AnthroPCs possess, she'd need a huge amount of memory. I wonder if 97TB is her total capacity or what she has left over for storage after subtracting her "personality".
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: wrwight on 20 Aug 2011, 10:18 ---Yeah, robot automation seems like it would fit perfectly in a socialist-type society, where the general idea is that society as a whole benefits from everyone's work, rather than individuals only. Socialism is a tricky thing though, and I think robot automation for the general benefit of a society is equally as tricky if not more so.
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There's still that whole bit of paying for the resources used by the robots to make the goodies
rje:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Aug 2011, 13:58 ---Maybe that computer is where the printer is attached?
Does anyone use hardcopy resumes any more?
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As someone who has been frantically looking for a new job for the last three weeks I can say freaking no
And it's annoying as fuck
At least with paper applications and resumes I can know that the workplace got my app. I mean maybe they threw it in the trash right after I walked out but still, it's a little less stressful than thinking my digital application just poofed into nothingness in cyberspace.
But then I have to apply for entry level jobs not something that really requires a resume, so it might be different in the upper echelons of society, idk.
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