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To: JohnM who wrote (210991)	12/9/2012 12:39:32 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541648

Whenever I've brought up the issue of those "uncomfortable implications," I get a speech about how it increases productivity, frees up workers for other jobs, and is good for consumers. Yeah, right, the assembly line workers are all going to become programmers.

To: JohnM who wrote (210991)	12/9/2012 6:10:04 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541648

Robots producing everything is inevitable. Our economy will have to change in order for there to be enough people with money to consume the robots production. We'll have to figure a way to get people who don't work money! What a horror for Republicans! There will still be jobs that robots can't do. Repair plumbing, for one, I think will be very difficult for robots to take over. Ironically, we think that it's blue collar jobs that robots will take, but as AI becomes more and more capable, I see many white collar jobs falling to smart software. No robot needed. Just a connected computer running the right software.