Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9517520" data-attributes="member: 6779310">I live in farming country - mostly cattle farms - I've seen one horse ridden in the last 7 years... and that was the town parade...I have seen fewer than a dozen horses on the farms nearby. A few thousand cattle, ahundred or so sheep, a dozen horses, and no horse doing labor save in the parade. And that one horse was brought in by its rider from the neighboring county!Sure, the Amish and Mennonites still use horses, but the automobile lead to the mechanical tractor, and that largely displaced animal labor on farms in the US, leading to, outside of the quasi-luddite religious groups' communities, relegating horses to "super expensive pets"...Cellphones haven't killed landlines, but Skype and Discord are posed to do so, and they definitely have rendered payphones a rarity (last payphone I used required a credit card; no coin acceptor - Seattle-Tacoma Int'l - 8 years ago). Anchorage still had a bunch back then, but they were not repaired nor replaced if damaged... save at the bus terminals, airports, and hospitals.I only have a landline because of it coming with and the company requiring a landline for internet when we obtained service; dropping it would increase the costs...AI will reduce the demand for artists and devalue human effort. The question is not "if," it's "when," and "How much?"</blockquote>