globinfo freexchange According to world famous physicist Stephen Hawking, the rising use of automated machines may mean the end of human rights – not just jobs. But he’s not talking about robots with artificial intelligence taking over the world, he’s talking about the current capitalist political system and its major players. On Reddit, Hawking said that the economic gap between the rich and the poor will continue to grow as more jobs are automated by machines, and the owners of said machines hoard them to create more wealth for themselves. The insatiable thirst for capitalist accumulation bestowed upon humans by years of lies and terrible economic policy has affected technology in such a way that one of its major goals has become to replace human jobs. If we do not take this warning seriously, we may face unfathomable corporate domination. If we let the same people who buy and sell our political system and resources maintain control of automated technology, the...
stop the rescues.... the problem will end. They all have cell phones!
ReplyDeleteWe cannot save the world - especially if every failed culture empties its poor and displaced on its neighbors.
The world is going to get much much tougher.... empathy is a luxury in a world where a breeding African means fewer Giraffes.
Sorry... I vote giraffe.