If technology is meant to be an extension of ourselves,

@adorbz True, Inspector Gadget is terrifying. 😖

@adorbz oh i can plow you from a different city darlin

@Straylight

this is so true. @MarkPaul

@deathfairy Seems that way.

@CountScrofula I think one day we’ll have true sentient AI and it’ll watch all the sci-fi movies about evil AI and be like “Guys wtf? I was program for hugs.”

@Straylight Well, that's not a new concept itself; from the industrial revolution to these days there has been a continuous replacements of old mansions with new ones.

The biggest treat to our jobs come from the fact that employers can easily find cheap labor (especially abroad), than from machines imo. We're still pretty far from being able to program machines in a way that they're so advanced, independent and general-purpose to ever replace a human in most positions.

@Elessar I have a friend in the oil field and part of his job is to tell people their job is gone. Not just that they’re fired, but the job they probably spent years training and getting certified in no longer exists. That’s part of what made me think of this.

@Straylight Oh, I'm not denying that such situations exist. Just saying that they've existed also before, they're always been a consequence of technological advancement, even preceding the industrial revolution itself. While some jobs are lost, new jobs are created, until they'll also be replaced by something else over time.

The certifications will probably go to waste, I suppose, but certainly not the skills. There are hopefully different positions, and if not, even different industries altogether where at least a subset of those skills would be useful/requested.

@Straylight There have always been bad intentions since civilization started. 🤔

@Classified Look at SW. 🤔

@Straylight If that was unchecked ambition, we would have had games by now 🥺

@PervertedPrincessOfDeath The Toa of PPoD. 🧘‍♀️

@Straylight one of many