Vision of life in the middle of the century
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IMHO, robots, aka "artificial intelligence", already control human society, in the form of multinationals. They are pre-programmed and single minded ("best interests of shareholders") and systematically buy off anyone who gets near power.
We still have the vote, but its generally a decision about which corporate sponsored member of the political class is most telegenic. The differences in policy, where they exist, disappear as soon as they take power, and the realities of power are explained to them.
We don't have to wait for computerised AI to take over the world, corporate AI has already done so. Its probably the cause of most, if not all, that is discussed on this forum.
We still have the vote, but its generally a decision about which corporate sponsored member of the political class is most telegenic. The differences in policy, where they exist, disappear as soon as they take power, and the realities of power are explained to them.
We don't have to wait for computerised AI to take over the world, corporate AI has already done so. Its probably the cause of most, if not all, that is discussed on this forum.
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Wasn't there some chap who took the analogy of a corporation being legally a person, to its logical conclusion, and analysed their behaviour? Then found (nearly) all of them were psychopaths??
And if that's so, isn't there a 'cure'? Or at the very least a way of changing the rules so that companies have strong 'incentive' to 'behave'?
And if that's so, isn't there a 'cure'? Or at the very least a way of changing the rules so that companies have strong 'incentive' to 'behave'?
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Take a look around, we're already there. All that's left is to grant corporations extraterritoriality. There's a good overview, albeit a US-centric one, here.RenewableCandy wrote:Wasn't there some chap who took the analogy of a corporation being legally a person, to its logical conclusion, and analysed their behaviour? Then found (nearly) all of them were psychopaths??
Yeah, it's known as: "Don't buy their shite."And if that's so, isn't there a 'cure'? Or at the very least a way of changing the rules so that companies have strong 'incentive' to 'behave'?
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does that mean we get to exile them all to Mars?syberberg wrote:
Take a look around, we're already there. All that's left is to grant corporations extraterritoriality
Wal-Mart, your inconvenience store...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritoriality
My feelings exactly!clv101 wrote:50 years into the future? I think the next 50 years are going to be far far harder to forecast than the last 50 and we know how accurate the 1950's forecasts of the 21st century were! :)
If there's one thing the PO crowd needs it's a healthy dose of humility regarding its own ability (or lack thereof) to forecast a detailed future.
Personally I will be glad if I can correctly predict the rough trend in energy prices for the next 10 years and a few very basic consequences of that price trend.
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If I could do that I wouldn't just be happy I'd be delirious (and so would my boss)! I'm forever being asked 'Yes but how long would this solar PV/wind-turbine/CHP mularkey take to pay for itself?'...Susukino wrote: Personally I will be glad if I can correctly predict the rough trend in energy prices for the next 10 years and a few very basic consequences of that price trend.
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Predicting the next 50 years should be a lot easier than it was predicting the last 50 years. As it should be easier predicting the decline of industry and technology than the development of new technology. Of course the idiots will still make stupid jetson style predictions.
M King Hubert made a pretty good prediction 50 years ago anyway: "Global peak around the year 2000" only six years off!
M King Hubert made a pretty good prediction 50 years ago anyway: "Global peak around the year 2000" only six years off!
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