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I'm more and more convinced that this will become necessary in the future. Thing keep getting more and more automated, even IT related tasks. Almost no part of society will go untouched.
But there is more to it than just universal incoming. There will always be jobs that will have to be done and there are a lot of factors that will have to be taken in to account. Also this is something countries will have to work together on if we are going to solve.
For example if the right investments were done at least 1/3 of all workers could go at where I worked with and if I consider the technologies avalible today as much as 2/3 are at risk. We are a supplier to mostly automotive industries and sooner or later there will be someone who opens a plant which is almost 100% automated with greater productivity and quality as well as precision delivery.
If you look around at all the other factories were I live its mostly true for these to. Even sales could be automated and transportation also got a clock ticking.
This means that in the coming decades society will have to adapt to this or there will be a huge increase in income disparity.
A country which successfully automates and manages to keep its industries productive and competitive will free up people to pursue other options. We might look at a possible education/knowledge boom. If a country adapts to universal income and over the time of change frees up 50% of their work force I do believe a lot of people will seek out other avenues to contribute just to have something to do which may make this country even more competitive.
Tbh I'm glad to be alive today and being able to see how the world evolves, we just have to avoid major events that set back this change.
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First of all... I like your vision.
Member 11683251 wrote: This means that in the coming decades society will have to adapt to this or there will be a huge increase in income disparity.
We already have experience and I am not so optimistic about a big change in this 
Member 11683251 wrote: We might look at a possible education/knowledge boom.
Or to a new war period. People with too much free time tend to do silly things.
Member 11683251 wrote: I do believe a lot of people will seek out other avenues to contribute just to have something to do which may make this country even more competitive.
I really hope you are right on this
Member 11683251 wrote: Tbh I'm glad to be alive today and being able to see how the world evolves,
I have to admit it is really interesting.
Member 11683251 wrote: we just have to avoid major events that set back this change.
We need a really big social / human nature evolution step to do this. And looking to the last 2000 years in our history... we are far from even leading in this direction.
M.D.V. 
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Member 11683251 wrote: Almost no part of society will go untouched.
A simple cost/benefit analysis claims the other end. Realize what can be automated today, and go to Africa.
Member 11683251 wrote: society will have to adapt to this or there will be a huge increase in income disparity.
There already is, don't blame it on the robots.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I can't see why we need extra income if robots will create food/clothes and other things including raw material...
All should be for free as robots need no payment...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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We will still need some way to distribute things, just because human labour isn't needed doesn't mean supply wont be bigger than demand. Either you need a que system or some other way to sort out who will get what. In the future money might be replaced by some sort of currency linked to energy/time and environmental factors. Universal income is a stepping stone towards this.
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Universal Income starts to sound like communism, and with the greatest will in the world, it won't work, as some people will always think they are wroth more than others.
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I suspect that the overwhelming majority of people would not know what to do with all the leisure time. As such, the most important product of the future is likely to be a drug that keeps them docile. The soma of Brave New World will become a reality.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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With our current setup soma is inevitable...
As today there are some who hold the resources (country or private) and the others have only their work. Without that work and without true freedom (economic and intellectual) all have to be in a prison to not to get wild... Soma is the prison...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Funny coming from a man who has spent years feeding at the government trough.
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The military today, we cubicle slaves tomorrow ? [^]Quote: US military successfully tests electrical brain stimulation to enhance staff skills
... in a series of experiments at the air force base, the researchers found that electrical brain stimulation can improve people’s multitasking skills and stave off the drop in performance that comes with information overload.
Research cited: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: "The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Multitasking Throughput Capacity" [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Hi raddevus,
Your recall of Dilbert is impressive: may I ask if you are using any cognitive enhancement pharmaceutics ? !
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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BillWoodruff wrote: may I ask if you are using any cognitive enhancement pharmaceutics ?
I genuinely LOLed on that.
And, no, you may not ask!
The reality is...
The Dilbert site is fantastic in that you can search for any words you remember from a strip or just keywords and it'll find associated strips with those words.
It's great because basically if something dumb happens at work (and when don't dumb things happen at work? -- this is rhetorical, of course) then you can do a quick keyword search and reply with a Dilbert. 
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Concentration is not actually a desirable skill.
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Hi, Piebald,
Okay ... care to expand on that a bit ?
yours, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Software development is a creative process.
It seems to me that concentration on one thing eliminates the ability for the mind to float on other things, reducing creativity.
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Software development has two parts...
Design - this is a creative process where hi level concentration wont' help
Writing - this is the black part, and hi concentration can help (at least can make it shorter)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Concentration in excess is actually something that would be undesirable from an evolutionary perspective as well. Can't get too focused on rubbing those sticks together when a Saber Tooth Tiger is sneaking up on you, ya know?
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 And people willingly subject themselves to this? I guess anything to advance one's career opportunities. With stuff like this, I can only imagine how un-human the world will be in 100 years, probably unrecognizable in 500 years. William Gibson[^] couldn't even come close to this dystopia.
Marc
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Google's DeepMind will train artificial intelligence on the game "StarCraft II," the company announced on Friday. Zerg rush!
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Well that's it then. The human race is saved.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Microsoft last week announced that it would support the Enterprise Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) through July 2018, a year-and-a-half extension for the anti-exploit utility. It's almost like people aren't rushing to Windows 10 or something
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The stalwarts have held the top two spots in Tiobe's popularity index since 2001, even as other languages get all the hype Bad news for all those expecting VB to make it's comeback
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bad news for all those expecting VB to make it's comeback
To do a comeback... it should have been gone first.
VB is like mosquitos, you might not see them, but when you relax and think you are safe... plof, a new bite in your XXX starts itching like hell.
M.D.V. 
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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