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gollygee

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10. I'm not

Tue May 31, 2016, 11:04 AM

May 2016

My daughter is in a robotics team that has robotics engineers involved and they talk about automation and what's coming. I've read a few news articles about it too. It's cheaper to write a computer program than hire people, so I think it's inevitable. I have no idea if it'll lead to a utopia though. We'd have to completely change our economic system. Automation + our current economic system = a lot of hungry people.

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Have you ever been asked what the Humanities are good for? [View all] Chiquitita May 2016 OP

Certainly. Act_of_Reparation May 2016 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author zentrum Jun 2016 #51

ugh. too many words. please put it in outline form and add hyperlinks for keywords? thanks! unblock May 2016 #2

Agree. Ugh. Please reduce to a single-panel cartoon? Thanks! cheapdate May 2016 #29

Heh heh, the moron's mating call. sofa king Jun 2016 #60

Chiquitita, is this your work? Greybnk48 May 2016 #3

Thanks, yes Chiquitita May 2016 #4

Winning Pub Trivia Night. whatthehey May 2016 #5

It's great for trivia. A nice bonus. Chiquitita May 2016 #7

Winning Pub Trivia Night flamin lib May 2016 #44

Sure - but again these are the reflexive priorities I mentioned above whatthehey Jun 2016 #50

Without them, there is precious little "reach" to exceed annabanana May 2016 #6

Once almost all tech work has been automated gollygee May 2016 #8

that's what an AI person said to me recently... Chiquitita May 2016 #9

I'm not gollygee May 2016 #10

I agree with you Chiquitita May 2016 #11

Look at the history of the US from the end of slavery to the Great JDPriestly May 2016 #35

This is what we need to be thinking about Chiquitita May 2016 #36

When we resist necessary change, we do violence to ourselves and sometimes to others. JDPriestly May 2016 #40

Be careful what you wish for a Utopia seldom turns out like jwirr May 2016 #43

"Riders of the Purple Wage." malthaussen Jun 2016 #55

I should dig up my copy of Dangerous Visions exboyfil Jun 2016 #56

Humanities were important until they committed suicide in the 80s. AngryAmish May 2016 #12

You're preaching to the choir, Chiquitita. TexasProgresive May 2016 #13

I taught Humanities in IGCSE, A-Level and in university for 12 years Feeling the Bern May 2016 #14

The answer padfun May 2016 #16

"worker bees who can't analyse, think critically or create."... madinmaryland Jun 2016 #69

Beautiful, amazing post! JDPriestly May 2016 #15

Timely essay ewagner May 2016 #17

I worked in sales to engineers. They all said their technical education prepared them to build flamin lib May 2016 #18

I worked over 20 years Sophiegirl May 2016 #25

Case in point: Karl Rove. No college so he can only repeat the same old tricks some one else showed McCamy Taylor May 2016 #19

My liberal arts education helped me to undertand the mythology behind religion passiveporcupine May 2016 #20

Unfortunately for your world-view, physicists have now Joe Chi Minh May 2016 #28

My English degree enables me to speak eloquently about my inadequate salary. Orrex May 2016 #21

I'm not convinced that our majors/degrees are at fault for salary disappointment Chiquitita May 2016 #22

"Can earn." That's a good one. Orrex May 2016 #27

I majored in comparative literature and Spanish Chiquitita May 2016 #32

I would certainly have benefited from a more dedicated study of a second language Orrex May 2016 #33

English majors have declined a lot over the last 10 years in response to what you are experiencing Chiquitita May 2016 #34

That's a smart strategy Orrex May 2016 #37

yes, nice to talk with you. Chiquitita May 2016 #39

Oddly, when we wanted to kill of the people who lived here so we could steal their homes and jtuck004 May 2016 #23

excellent insight Chiquitita May 2016 #38

The arts and humanities make us human awoke_in_2003 May 2016 #24

This is a great narrative. Thanks, Chiquitita SpankMe May 2016 #26

Two close friends are senior software engineers at a prominent company. REP May 2016 #30

I can not understand for the life of me how anyone pangaia May 2016 #31

The number one major at Yale is history. KamaAina May 2016 #41

My wife and I have science degrees. Our children have humanities degrees. hunter May 2016 #42

Humanities flamin lib May 2016 #45

k and r -- from a phil and humanities major :) nashville_brook May 2016 #46

k and r, with thanks. niyad May 2016 #47

it certainly helps at "geeks who drink" nights!! niyad May 2016 #48

Humanities are great if students take personal responsibility for that choice of major in college. MadDAsHell Jun 2016 #49

"interests" like Language, Religion, Music, Art, Philosophy, Literature, and History? tenderfoot Jun 2016 #59

So you're proposing...what? MadDAsHell Jun 2016 #62

Do you think your English teacher studied law? tenderfoot Jun 2016 #67

And you sound like the typical "everyone else should pay for my mistakes" kind of person. MadDAsHell Jun 2016 #70

Free University like the rest of the CIVILIZED world. tenderfoot Jun 2016 #72

I think the institutions that grant degrees Chiquitita Jun 2016 #64

I 100% agree with you on the schools; they have responsiblity here too. MadDAsHell Jun 2016 #65

I see your point Chiquitita Jun 2016 #66

The Humanities zentrum Jun 2016 #52

It does seem weird that in the thousands upon thousands of years My Good Babushka Jun 2016 #53

How many on a percentage basis had time exboyfil Jun 2016 #57

Those who were able to attain scholarship My Good Babushka Jun 2016 #58

Several in this thread tenderfoot Jun 2016 #68

That education was mostly reserved for the gentry. X_Digger Jun 2016 #71

She is, however, easily controllable. malthaussen Jun 2016 #54

Humanities is good for long thoughtful essays. What good is culture? or literacy? Bucky Jun 2016 #61

they are forms of capital Chiquitita Jun 2016 #63