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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7964570" data-attributes="member: 19675">In other discussions over the years, I made the observation that there’s a lot of fiction that is set in semi-utopian societies- sometimes they’re even post-scarcity.You never see fiction set in the transition from what we have now to the societies they posit.Over the past 20 years, we’ve been seeing the rise of technology that would seem to point in the directions the futurists are predicting.  In 2012, a robotics company unveiled a prototype modular manufacturing robot that could do 200 different tasks, for the same projected 5 year cost as an Indonesian factory worker. We’re seeing bigger, longer tests of autonomous automobiles hit the road.On the computing side, AI programs have gotten to be 60% as good at diagnosing illnesses as actual MDs, according to a couple of studies,And those companies surely weren’t the only ones with projects like that in the works.So my guess is we’re going to see the acceleration of technology eliminating the need to work in centralized locations  AND outright eliminating jobs.  IOW, I really think we’re at the dawn of that transitional period nobody ever talks about, and Covid-19 is the catalyst.</blockquote>