If Robots Walked The Earth...

[RGX]

I'm enjoying these two threads, got some really nice sensible (and not so sensible ) debate out of it.

[Snee]

Originally posted by RGX@10 August 2004 - 22:41
I'm enjoying these two threads, got some really nice sensible (and not so sensible ) debate out of it.

It was a while since anything in the lounge had made me think.

I'm still pondering dave's class question, actually.

I have a hard time deciding if the robots would be the new lower classes or whether there simply would be no lower class, if they actually wouldn't be suffering, and would be more like tools than servants.

[RGX]

Originally posted by SnnY+10 August 2004 - 20:45--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (SnnY @ 10 August 2004 - 20:45)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-RGX@10 August 2004 - 22:41
I&#39;m enjoying these two threads, got some really nice sensible (and not so sensible ) debate out of it.

It was a while since anything in the lounge had made me think.

I&#39;m still pondering dave&#39;s class question, actually.

I have a hard time deciding if the robots would be the new lower classes or whether there simply would be no lower class, if they actually wouldn&#39;t be suffering, and would be more like tools than servants. [/b][/quote]
It would be an interesting economy for sure....if everyone was considered rich, able to buy exactly what they wanted....where would be the motivation?

It seems to me our capitalist society has taught us that we need happiness, and we have mistaken money to be the cause of that happiness....seeing as we now have everything we want, where would we go from here? To further ourselves, like in Star Trek?

[MicroScreen2]

i really cant imagine a world without lower classes. or a world where we&#39;re all rich

[DanB]

There will always be the rich and the poor

[Snee]

If it&#39;d be a place where we could lounge about all day I&#39;m all for it.

We&#39;d need something to occupy us after a while tho&#39;.

Maybe we could work with what we wanted, those of us that wanted to, and have the robots do what no one wanted, or with what wasn&#39;t safe.

[Snee]

Bumped &#39;cos it&#39;s a thread with content.

g&#39;night everybody.

[DanB]

Bye SnnY

[Cheese]

I&#39;m looking forward to proper Robot Wars...at the moment all we have is some crappy radio controlled cars with "weapons" blue-tacced to them...

I want to see huge proper robots destroying each other and the surrounding countryside.

[Barbarossa]

Originally posted by SnnY@10 August 2004 - 22:04
If it&#39;d be a place where we could lounge about all day I&#39;m all for it.

We&#39;d need something to occupy us after a while tho&#39;.

Maybe we could work with what we wanted, those of us that wanted to, and have the robots do what no one wanted, or with what wasn&#39;t safe.

Someone mentioned the Culture earlier in the thread, that is the society dreamt up by Iain M. Banks in a number of novels..

Basically, it&#39;s a high-tech utopian society for humans, which is administered by vastly powerful "Minds", which are effectively super-brains.

There are also "Drones", which are small robots acting as personal assistants, servants, and general dogsbodies for the human population (and the Minds&#33 Drones are usually alot more powerful than they let on.. Minds are usually synonymous with the Habitats and Orbitals they are running. Or the big spaceships called GSV&#39;s and the smaller ones called GCU&#39;s, each one is controlled by an individual Mind, and a minimal human crew. They also give themselves wacky names&#33;

For some reason, all of these AI&#39;s seem to have each human&#39;s best interests at heart, and indulge their every whim without (much) question. However, they all have their own distinct personalities and desires.. The Minds and Drones are generally acting in the best interests of the Culture as a whole, the humans are generally left to do as they please (except where required to do something specific by the Minds)

Anyway, it&#39;s very well thought out, and is for once a positive possible future where sentient technology successfully co-exists with a human society.