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To: Kirk © who wrote (4838)	6/12/2017 11:45:52 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) of 26590

Not that I really want to get involved in talking about this issue at moment, but-- The biggest question for me is "who would wash the dishes and clean tables at restaurants as not everyone will get to express their creativity as a cook." That seems to me to be an engineering problem. Most of the process can and will be automated over the next decade or two. It has already begun. Bussing dishes, bringing food to tables and waiting on tables has already begun to be automated in China and Japan (despite China's predilection for giving people all sorts of menial work like opening doors rather than having them going jobless). And Panera (to take but one example) has begun experimenting with having people input their orders and pay on an in-house computer, then pick them up at the counter. Of course there are other jobs besides in restaurants and perhaps you can think of some that would be difficult to replace with computers and/or robotic machines. But my suspicion is, it would be a failure of our imagination rather than intrinsic to the task itself. Then the problem becomes, what do humans do with this astonishing and unprecedented power? How will we organize ourselves?

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