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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8394727" data-attributes="member: 19675">I mention it from time to time, here and there…but there is so much Sci-Fi that takes place in a post-scarcity setting, but I cannot think of one where an author closely examines the process of transitioning into such a world from one like our present day.  That period is a bunch of Handwavium.And we’re living in that glossed over part right now.In 2012, a robotics company introduced a prototype modular robot that could be configured to do 200 different manufacturing tasks, with a purchase price and 5 year cost of operations equivalent to 5 years wages for an Indonesian factory worker.A few years ago, medical diagnostic AI programs were averaging about 60% of the accuracy of trained physicians.Every year, we’re seeing more automation in automobiles, and the big commercial jets pretty much fly themselves but for takeoffs and landings.Nobody’s job is safe.  I mean, we have a long way to go, but the pace of change is accelerating.  (FWIW, I don’t use self-checkout either, mainly because they routinely misbehave for me.  Don’t know why, but I seem to be a problem for certain technologies, like fingerprint readers, touch screens and sometimes, motion detectors.)</blockquote>