I can’t decide with you, Ry, whether you are a Puritan or a Romantic. I am a human being. And what if you were one of the millions of human beings who will have no place in the automated life that will soon be reality? Cars, trucks, buses, trains will drive themselves. Stores and supermarkets will use smart tracking for your purchases. Your home will use repair diagnostics. Your fridge will order its own food. Bots will take care of the housework and entertain your children. What will you do all day? That’s not how you sold it in your lecture. And that is not how it will be for those of us
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