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203 <span class="date">14 October 2024</span> 204 </div> 205 206 207 208 <div class="meta-categories"> 209 <i class="fa fa-folder-open" aria-hidden="true"></i> 210 211 212 <span class="categories"> 213 <a href="https://everything-eventually-will-be-free.com/category/episodes/" title="Episodes" class="meta-category-link"><span class="single-cat">Episodes</span></a> </span> 214 </div> 215 216 217 218</div> 219 220 </section> 221 222 223 <section class="entry-content"> 224 225 226 227<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But YouTube will not let me upload things longer than 15mins to start with so going to cut it into two parts. Might even try to keep all blog post less than 15 mins but we know how hard that might be to keep.</p> 228 229 230 231<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> <hr></p> 232 233 234 235<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hello</p> 236 237 238 239<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Welcome to the first instalment of Everything Eventually will be FREE.</p> 240 241 242 243<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We are currently in the era where Chat GPT is the thing that threatens to steal our jobs.</p> 244 245 246 247<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is only the latest in a long list of things that replaces our jobs.</p> 248 249 250 251<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So far these advancements have started new industries and created as many jobs as they have replaced.</p> 252 253 254 255<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are many people that will tell you this new era of Artificial Intelligence will be the same.</p> 256 257 258 259<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Though, if we do manage to make a machine that can perform tasks as well as a human, with as good a sense of the world, and enough intelligence to do the task.</p> 260 261 262 263<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Well. Then I think itâs quite plausible that one day all jobs will be done by robots or computers.</p> 264 265 266 267<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When that happens the cost of making most things could drop to zero.</p> 268 269 270 271<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To start with lets get one thing out of the way.</p> 272 273 274 275<p class="wp-block-paragraph">No, despite the title, not everything will be free.</p> 276 277 278 279<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There will always be things that are scarce, rare or unique in ways that will make them desirable and valuable.</p> 280 281 282 283<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I will explore this more in later episodes.</p> 284 285 286 287<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To start with Iâll concentrate on the things that are likely to be automated, and how that will effect the world.</p> 288 289 290 291<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I do think, most everyday things we need could become free, and we will eventually be able to live without spending any money.</p> 292 293 294 295<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Though there is likely to be some sort of credit system which Iâll also explore more in later episodes.</p> 296 297 298 299<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The other thing to clear up is that Iâm not putting a time frame on this.<br>It could take 10 years, 100 years or thousands of years to get to a fully automated world where everything is free.</p> 300 301 302 303<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So I am not going to spend much time predicting when this could happen.<br>Instead Iâll be exploring the âhow and whyâ it might happen.</p> 304 305 306 307<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As well as looking at some of the potential pitfalls and benefits we may encounter along the way.</p> 308 309 310 311<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I feel that all the technology needed to make this happen, is starting to fall into place, and we are on the verge of a revolution.</p> 312 313 314 315<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Part 1: How everything becomes free.</p> 316 317 318 319<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Most of the costs in life come, from paying humans for their labour, in one way or another.</p> 320 321 322 323<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Artificial Intelligent systems like Chat GPT replace jobs by reducing the number of hours of labour needed to complete a task.</p> 324 325 326 327<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Machinery and automation have been replacing jobs in a similar way for a long time.</p> 328 329 330 331<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Like a worker with an electric screwdriver will secure a screw in a block of wood much quicker than someone using a normal screwdriver.</p> 332 333 334 335<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I think a lot of the current hysteria is because the Chat GPT type systems are replacing human hours, in well paid jobs. A lot in the media where the people with the biggest megaphones work.</p> 336 337 338 339<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To me the current predictive Artificial Intelligence is just better softw
339are running on better computers.</p> 340 341 342 343<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They are the office equivalent to the barcode revolution in large shops.</p> 344 345 346 347<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Before the scanners and barcodes arrived in shops you would have many more people working in retail.</p> 348 349 350 351<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After they were introduced the shopping experience has just continued to be more automated.</p> 352 353 354 355<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nowadays you can buy something online and have that item shipped to your front door. This reduces the number of staff needed to almost itâs minimum.</p> 356 357 358 359<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Itâs hard to get people concerned about the loss of a load of low paid workers. Unless you are directly impacted.</p> 360 361 362 363<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But, when it starts happening to the jobs that give people a lot of disposable income. Then it seems like a different story.</p> 364 365 366 367<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In both cases you lose jobs because of efficiency. A job that takes a tenth of the time to do with machinery, means one person can do the same work as 10 people used to do.</p> 368 369 370 371<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To get to a point where everything will be free, we have to create a fully automated world.</p> 372 373 374 375<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Where computers and machines can replace all jobs.</p> 376 377 378 379<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Just removing the cost of human labour, and the buildings they work in. This would remove a large chunk of the cost of any product or service.</p> 380 381 382 383<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Think of a product and how much of itâs cost is paying someone to mine or gather all the raw materials needed.</p> 384 385 386 387<p class="wp-block-paragraph">People to refine or process the materials.</p> 388 389 390 391<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To assemble the product.</p> 392 393 394 395<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pack and deliver it.</p> 396 397 398 399<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then all the people needed to move things from one place to another.</p> 400 401 402 403<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then the cost of all the buildings needed.</p> 404 405 406 407<p class="wp-block-paragraph">People needed to service and supply these buildings.</p> 408 409 410 411<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The people to maintain all this.</p> 412 413 414 415<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is where most of our âcostsâ come from, itâs the cost of the humans that put in the labour needed to keep the system going.</p> 416 417 418 419<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The cost savings from the few decades around the millennium has mostly come from the manual labour savings.<br>Mass production automation, barcode scanners, electric screwdrivers and the like.</p> 420 421 422 423<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As computers have got better this automation has started to streamline more of the office jobs.</p> 424 425 426 427<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What happens if we automate all the jobs that make most of the money?</p> 428 429 430 431<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It used to take almost the whole output of the worldâs human labour just to keep us alive, fed, clothed and with a place to shelter.</p> 432 433 434 435<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Throughout modern history we have increased productivity by using tools and machinery.</p> 436 437 438 439<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Things like an axe, windmills, electric drills, pipes, elevators, computers, cranes and many more.</p> 440 441 442 443<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These sort of things, have saved us humans many hours of labour.</p> 444 445 446 447<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Each time needing fewer people to complete the basic tasks that sustain our lifestyles.</p> 448 449 450 451<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We already have a world where some jobs are now fully replaced with either machines, computers or both.</p> 452 453 454 455<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Each year there are advancements in computers and machinery that makes automating more tasks cost effective and productive enough to replace humans.</p> 456 457 458 459<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If we carry on in this way then ultimately we will get to a point where either we hit a wall and canât increase automation any further.</p> 460 461 462 463<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Or we end up automating everything.</p> 464 465 466 467<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Just like politicians will tell you a new business is good for the region because it will create jobs beyond the direct employment of their staff.</p> 468 469 470 471<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Like wise the automation of an industry will destroy more jobs than the direct ones involved.</p> 472 473 474 475<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For example self driving trucks could cause truck stops to close down as well as a local business that sold things to their customers.</p> 476 477 478 479<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At the moment it seems we are automating more and more each year. There does not seem to be any signs of it slowing down or hitting any wall we canât pass.</p> 480 481 482 483<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If anything it seems we are finding complex automation increasingly easy as technology advances.</p> 484 485 486 487<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you could make a physical product, where the first time a human is needed, will be when the customer picks it up off the floor of their home.</p> 488 489 490 491<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then that physical product could be made for almost no cost.</p> 492 493 494 495<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I will go into this in more depth in later episodes but if you have full automation for everything from gathering the resources needed to processing them.</p> 496 497 498 499<p class="wp-block-paragraph">From making the item to shipping it.</p> 500 501 502 503<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Along with all the machinery needed to do this being made and maintained by robots.</p> 504 505 506 507<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then once you have recouped the cost of setting up the initial system, everything after that is pure profit.</p> 508 509 510 511<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This would also mean the cost of living could also take a drastic drop in price.</p> 512 513 514 515<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We could move from a price dominated economy to a resource based economy. Where itâs more about making sure we manage the resources at out disposal than keeping everyone employed.</p> 516 517 518 519<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So basically once you have automated every part of production, we could care more about managing resources than production.</p> 520 521 522 523<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Maybe at the expense of profit.</p> 524 525 526 527<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Maybe something like the circular economy could come into effect along with a credit system to stop overconsumption.</p> 528 529 530 531<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Part 2: What we need to achieve zero cost automation.</p> 532 533 534 535<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are a few things that help make automating everything cheap enough, fast enough and productive enough to replace a human.</p> 536 537 538 539<p class="wp-block-paragraph">First is renewable and abundant energy, in this day and age that means electricity.</p> 540 541 542 543<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We already have ways to make clean cheap electricity with wind and s
543olar.</p> 544 545 546 547<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So itâs not to big a leap to get to a point where most things can be powered by cheap abundant renewable energy and whichever storage solution wins out.</p> 548 549 550 551<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Motors play a big part in automation.</p> 552 553 554 555<p class="wp-block-paragraph">From driving conveyor belts to turning a drill bit. As soon as they are fast enough, durable enough, and cheap enough, then they have replaced physical labour.</p> 556 557 558 559<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A robot is mostly just a combination of electric motors and computers.</p> 560 561 562 563<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Over the last few decades motors have improved vastly. Improving in speed, torque and efficiency.</p> 564 565 566 567<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There seem less and less tasks they canât do each year and getting close to being as dexterous as a human in most tasks.</p> 568 569 570 571<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Next up is sensors.</p> 572 573 574 575<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Automation is limited if it canât monitor it’s surroundings.</p> 576 577 578 579<p class="wp-block-paragraph">From lasers that count units produced in a production line, to cameras that provide a visual image of an object.</p> 580 581 582 583<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These really help you automate in an imperfect world, pick up potential problems and keep track of complex systems.</p> 584 585 586 587<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As with motors, these have improved a lot in the last few decades especially in things like object recognition and environmental monitoring.</p> 588 589 590 591<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Almost goes without saying that computers are quite handy too, and doubt I need to state how much they have improved over the last few decades.</p> 592 593 594 595<p class="wp-block-paragraph">From processing the sensorâs data to controlling the motors.</p> 596 597 598 599<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Itâs the computers that makes automated systems all tick along nicely and deal with any problems.</p> 600 601 602 603<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They also run the artificial intelligence software that will control complex systems like self driving cars.</p> 604 605 606 607<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So to get to full automation, we mostly just need something that is at least as good as a human, and ideally something much better.</p> 608 609 610 611<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Things like optical circuits that can detect objects as well as a human. Or robotic arms that can pick up and manipulate objects, as well as your average worker.</p> 612 613 614 615<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As soon as they can perform as well as a human or better then they will start to take over human labour as the cost of the system becomes cheap enough.</p> 616 617 618 619<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The hardest things seems to have been recognising objects in a timely fashion or moving motors fast enough and precisely enough to do some complex tasks as well as a human can.</p> 620 621 622 623<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Once we have got the speed, accuracy and dexterity right then an automated system will get cheaper and become more and more common.</p> 624 625 626 627<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As soon as a task can be done by automation for less than a low paid worker cost for a few years work. Then that job will become redundant.</p> 628 629 630 631<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One of the common example tasks factory humanoid robots is shown completing is taking products off a conveyor belt and storing or packing them.</p> 632 633 634 635<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is quite a surprisingly hard task for a machine but simple for a human.</p> 636 637 638 639<p class="wp-block-paragraph">You might need to compensate for a unevenly distributed weight.</p> 640 641 642 643<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Need good object recognition skills.</p> 644 645 646 647<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Need to be able to plan where to move and deal with the unexpected.</p> 648 649 650 651<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We are starting to crack this problem and do it about the speed of a human.</p> 652 653 654 655<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Obviously one of the big advantages is, the machines donât need breaks or to be paid.</p> 656 657 658 659<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But the real advantage would come if we can get them so good you can speed up that conveyor belt and double throughput.</p> 660 661 662 663<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For each of these problems that are preventing full automation there is dozens of companies working on solving each problem.</p> 664 665 666 667<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Part 3: How far along the fully automated path are we now?</p> 668 669 670 671<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I think most people would be surprised by how much automation they encounter every day. Most of it seems so mundane that we take it for granted.</p> 672 673 674 675<p class="wp-block-paragraph">From washing machines cleaning your clothes to traffic lights changing on a schedule.</p> 676 677 678 679<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Elevators stopping at the right floor to automated sprinkler systems. There is already a lot of human labour that has been replaced.</p> 680 681 682 683<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There used to be wash houses full of people washing clothes.</p> 684 685 686 687<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Traffic police that directed traffic.</p> 688 689 690 691<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Elevator operators and gardeners that did jobs that have been replaced by automation.</p> 692 693 694 695<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There is a saying which goes along the lines of:</p> 696 697 698 699<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As soon as something is automated, then people stop thinking of that being part of the automation system.</p> 700 701 702 703<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Which means, people think of automation being things like robots that mimic human task, rather than machines that perform a part of a task.</p> 704 705 706 707<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you had a factory worker that wanted to remove all this pesky automated stuff that is taking their jobs.</p> 708 709 710 711<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They probably would not want to walk up fourteen floors to where they parked their car in a multi story car park.</p> 712 713 714 715<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They would exclude something like an elevator from their list of automated things they want to replace.</p> 716 717 718 719<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One of the big challenges in complex automation has been speed.</p> 720 721 722 723<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Whether itâs reaction time when the unexpected happens.</p> 724 725 726 727<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Or how fast a task can be completed compared to a human doing it.</p> 728 729 730 731<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is most obvious in one of the hardest tasks to automate.</p> 732 733 734 735<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Self driving vehicles.</p> 736 737 738 739<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For this task the challenge is to do the right thing in a very short time. Every time.</p> 740 741 742 743<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With current technology self driving works quite well at around 30 to 49 kilometres per hour speed, but there is low demand for vehicles with that sort of top speed.</p> 744 745 746 747<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is due to the time it takes to capture the world around the vehicle, map the data, detect potential dangers and plot the right cause of action.</p> 748 749 750 751<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is why the global drive to crack the self driving problem is being tackled like the space race.</p> 752 753 754 755<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The companies and countries that crack it first, are going to be, driving in the fast lane into the next era.</p> 756 757 758 759<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In manufacturing itâs all about the whole system producing the maximum number of units.</p> 760 761 762 763<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The automated parts have to be more productive than humans doing the same task.</p> 764 765 766 767<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We certainly have more automation than 50 or 25 years ago.</p> 768 769 770 771<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We currently have mostly automated quarries and other resource gathering systems.</p> 772 773 774 775<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Processing the resources has a huge amount of automation.</p> 776 777 778 779<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Assembly and production of the finished product is again already fairly automated.</p> 780 781 782 783<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Self driving vehicles to move things around, is one of the major bottlenecks.</p> 784 785 786 787<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Creating new products used to be another but that seems to be changing now.</p> 788 789 790 791<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As to how much more automation we need to get to full automation. We will have to wait and see.</p> 792 793 794 795<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Over time I want to look at some of the past automation challenges and how they played out.</p> 796 797 798 799<p class="wp-block-paragraph">How they were invented, how they developed, what popularised them and how they were received.</p> 800 801 802 803<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As well as looking at the end game and whatâs currently stopping us getting there.</p> 804 805 806 807<p class="wp-block-paragraph">
807Part 4: If everything is automated how will the world work?</p> 808 809 810 811<p class="wp-block-paragraph">âWork keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.â Voltaire, Candide</p> 812 813 814 815<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Universal Basic Income is often proposed as a solution to the âneedâ part. If most people donât work, then some sort of credit system seems likely.</p> 816 817 818 819<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An economist is likely to tell you, this will not work in practice, as it will be too expensive.</p> 820 821 822 823<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Though, they will be calculating this cost at todayâs cost. That includes things like labour, building costs and even profit.</p> 824 825 826 827<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These may not really be that important in a fully automated world where all these costs will be negligible.</p> 828 829 830 831<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Itâs much more likely that we will need to find a way of stopping mass over consumption and managing resources.</p> 832 833 834 835<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Universal Basic Income can make it so you donât need to worry about basics like food, shelter and energy.</p> 836 837 838 839<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Maybe even help moderate the vice and boredom problem.</p> 840 841 842 843<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I quite like the idea that each person is given a cubic space allowance for living accommodation.</p> 844 845 846 847<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Something like, you have a minimum of 50 cubic meters per person, which will get you that size apartment somewhere.</p> 848 849 850 851<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Partner up with someone, and you can combine that allocation to a 100 cubic meter accommodation. Have a child then add another 50.</p> 852 853 854 855<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So you are guaranteed a space to live and your basics covered. Obviously there could still be disparity, in where your space is located, and the basic facilities you have near you.</p> 856 857 858 859<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Costs could also be slashed, when we adopt the circular economy, with a âreuse repair recycleâ philosophy, and start making things that are durable, repairable and re-usable.</p> 860 861 862 863<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Boredom could be one of the biggest problems. We will have to relearn how to fill our days without the need to work.</p> 864 865 866 867<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Though we have more than enough movies, music, books and games to fill many lifetimes.</p> 868 869 870 871<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The old sayings of âyou would not want to waste your life away watching telly all day would you?â seems less used these days. You are more likely to hear people say âI donât have enough time to watch all the stuff I want toâ.</p> 872 873 874 875<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Yet there already is a growing problem of so much choice, that some people can flick through pages of listings, and not find anything they feel like watching right now.</p> 876 877 878 879<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Maybe we learn to overcome this or maybe the world turns to violence and vice.</p> 880 881 882 883<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It seems likely that some people might want to work.</p> 884 885 886 887<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Whether itâs for artistic release, to kill time or because they like interacting with people.</p> 888 889 890 891<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There is almost likely to be some sort of extra credit system where you can give credits to others in exchange for work.</p> 892 893 894 895<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So you could still follow a career if you wanted to, most likely without the stress and pressure our current society inflicts on so many.</p> 896 897 898 899<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Or maybe we develop a different sort of wealth.</p> 900 901 902 903<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Some cultures have something like âa purpose in lifeâ that you are encouraged to discover.</p> 904 905 906 907<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We may need something like this, to make life not feel pointless.</p> 908 909 910 911<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are lessons we can learn from history, where groups of people have not needed to work all the time.</p> 912 913 914 915<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Social gatherings, live entertainment, sporting achievements and the like all help fill up a lifetime.</p> 916 917 918 919<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Education will need to change to adapt to teach whatever life skills we need to cope with a world without work.</p> 920 921 922 923<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Considering the current education system seems designed to make good workers for business, then this is going to be a big change, and take time.</p> 924 925 926 927<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Getting the right mix of food, exercise, social and entertainment in a world without work could take time to work out.</p> 928 929 930 931<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We are adaptive creatures and Iâm sure we will work it out.</p> 932 933 934 935<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Part 5: What could go wrong?</p> 936 937 938 939<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Everything I have stated so far, about the prices dropping to zero, is obviously depen
939dant there being low resistance from the people losing profits and power.</p> 940 941 942 943<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Just because something cost nothing to make, that may not stop people charging you to use or have it.</p> 944 945 946 947<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The current trend seems to be getting people to pay monthly to use something rather than to own it.</p> 948 949 950 951<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you have an apple tree then you can have apples for free every year. At least when they are in season.</p> 952 953 954 955<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For the rest of the year there will be someone selling apples you can buy, especially when there are none on the local trees.</p> 956 957 958 959<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you started a campaign to get people to plant more apple trees and only eat apples when they are in season.</p> 960 961 962 963<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Iâm willing to bet some company making money from selling you apples would put a lot of money into convincing you that your better off buying apples from your usual shop.</p> 964 965 966 967<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There seem to be an ever increasing number of companies that would rather make more money, than drop the prices they charge.</p> 968 969 970 971<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The corporate thinking at the moment is you have to make more money every year.</p> 972 973 974 975<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This of course, is not sustainable, as infinite growth is never sustainable.</p> 976 977 978 979<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As these companies have more money, they then have more resources to pressure politicians into making favourable laws.</p> 980 981 982 983<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Squashing the competition by denying them access to retail establishments, or just spending huge money on advertising.</p> 984 985 986 987<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We are already seeing this in the entertainment industry as the established markets that make money from books, movies and music are fighting back against the new artificially generated content.</p> 988 989 990 991<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The people that complain the most are the ones making the most money out of the current system.</p> 992 993 994 995<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Itâs yet to be seen whether the people making money, eventually pivot to replacing all human labour, to make more money off of generated content, or whether they just carry on fighting the new changes.</p> 996 997 998 999<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I guess there will be winners and losers on both sides.</p> 1000 1001 1002 1003<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So thatâs the financial side of things, but there is also the boredom threat. What do we all do with all that free time?</p> 1004 1005 1006 1007<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Could social crimes like household violence, sexual assaults and gangs become a bigger problem?</p> 1008 1009 1010 1011<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Or police state like levels of control to keep people in check?</p> 1012 1013 1014 1015<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Maybe people will just appreciate human contact more and do more things together?</p> 1016 1017 1018 1019<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Maybe we get more exercise and do more social things or we become reclusive and just watch videos all day long.</p> 1020 1021 1022 1023<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then there is the transition from the current world to the new world.</p> 1024 1025 1026 1027<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This seems very unlikely to go smoothly.</p> 1028 1029 1030 1031<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Do those with jobs and resources help those put out of work by automation or do we leave them to fend for themselves?</p> 1032 1033 1034 1035<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Do we return to the feudal times where a few mega rich people control everything and the rest survive of their handouts?</p> 1036 1037 1038 1039<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I imagine the flash point is when a few people are still needed to work but most donât.</p> 1040 1041 1042 1043<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I can see the ones that have to work resenting the people that donât have to work.</p> 1044 1045 1046 1047<p class="wp-block-paragraph">How much resources should people have access to?</p> 1048 1049 1050 1051<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Enough to just about survive, or more than enough to live comfortably?</p> 1052 1053 1054 1055<p class="wp-block-paragraph">How equal should we all be, especially in cultures with a strong class system. How do we police the new order?<
1055/p> 1056 1057 1058 1059<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Oh, and of course the robots could rise up against us.</p> 1060 1061 1062 1063<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Iâll dive into some of these in more details too.</p> 1064 1065 1066 1067<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So to wrap up.</p> 1068 1069 1070 1071<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Automation is nothing new.</p> 1072 1073 1074 1075<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Itâs a journey we have been on for a few thousand years.</p> 1076 1077 1078 1079<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We do seem to be on the brink of technically being able to automate most tasks but will have to wait and see how long it will take to be practical.</p> 1080 1081 1082 1083<p class="wp-block-paragraph">People like change that happens âovernightâ but this does not happen as much as you might think. Our collective knowledge has periods of striving forwards and then periods of stagnation.</p> 1084 1085 1086 1087<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Most people alive today have only known a rapidly changing world.</p> 1088 1089 1090 1091<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At some point, maybe fairly soon, this could all come to a halt. Or at least slow down quite a bit.</p> 1092 1093 1094 1095<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What feels like impossible today could well be a solved problem in 10 years time.</p> 1096 1097 1098 1099<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While other things that seem like they could happen next year might take 500 years to happen.</p> 1100 1101 1102 1103<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The idea here is to explore what would happen if we did managed to fully automate all jobs.</p> 1104 1105 1106 1107<p class="wp-block-paragraph">How society would change, what the issues are, potential problems and possible solutions.</p> 1108 1109 1110 1111<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So why listen to me?</p> 1112 1113 1114 1115<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Well I have no agenda.</p> 1116 1117 1118 1119<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I don’t think I’m right.</p> 1120 1121 1122 1123<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I am willing to change my mind and try not to be bias.</p> 1124 1125 1126 1127<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While being fairly well informed, Iâm only a keen outside observer.</p> 1128 1129 1130 1131<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I donât work for anyone in the automation world, and have no interest in working or investing in anyone that does.</p> 1132 1133 1134 1135<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I donât even care about monetizing this project.</p> 1136 1137 1138 1139<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The reason I am doing this, is because I have been intrigued by the subject of automation for a while.</p> 1140 1141 1142 1143<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I love the idea of us humans never having to work again sometime in the future, and want to start a debate on the subject.</p> 1144 1145 1146 1147<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So I encourage you all to share your views on the topics I discuss, and am happy to revisit subjects if and when there is questions that need debating.</p> 1148 1149 1150 1151<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you noticed, this is read by an artificial voice.</p> 1152 1153 1154 1155<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The main reason for this is that you probably would much prefer that, than hearing me read all this out.</p> 1156 1157 1158 1159<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It also forces me to write down my thoughts so, hopefully, they are more concise than some of the people that just set the mic up and ramble on for a bit.</p> 1160 1161 1162 1163<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This also means that these will not be weekly, maybe not even monthly. They will drop “as and when” I feel they are right.</p> 1164 1165 1166 1167<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Finally Iâd like to add that everything on this channel is free to use as you like.</p> 1168 1169 1170 1171<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That means you can take the text of any episode, which Iâll publish on the website.</p> 1172 1173 1174 1175<p class="wp-block-paragraph">You are free to, make your own version of this and put it up online. Or translate it into another language.</p> 1176 1177 1178 1179<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Can use as many extracts as you like. Mix it up, mash it up, as much as you like. Make changes, corrections, comments and republish. 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