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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 1375 Robot Age
Description: There’s no problem with productivity in American, especially considering the upcoming Robot Age: robots driving cars, robots cleaning houses, robots growing & preparing food, robots doing all the clerking tasks, even robots tending children; it will be just like the science fiction stories. Robots imply less work for the same Quality-of-Life, so presumably a huge chunk of the population could live a physically satisfactory life with less expenditure of effort. This is presumably a good thing… Or is it?
The question becomes: what will people do? Most people aren’t creative and even if they were trained to be passable drafts...