Robots take over.

Subject: Robots take over.

As if to soften us up for the inevitable, the airwaves (see fibre cable) are full of talk about robots taking over our jobs. It is apparently "inevitable" that in the next 20 or so years whole swathes of human work will be done by an artificial intelligence motivated robot.

Where you had humans going out to work each day to provide their input into a task that business needed fulfilling, there will be a mechanical operative coupled by a computer program willing to work (not sure if artificial intelligence will find the need to unionise) 24 -7.   Once the cost of the build is covered, (tax deductible) there are no further overheads. No wages, no toilets or canteens, the coffee machine will be a thing of the past. With no one coming into work the need for public transport or the peek-hour traffic jams become a thing of the past. Goods will need to be transported but in lorries which are driven by a computer such as the Uber driverless trucks that are being tested as we speak. 

Technology and the ingenuity of the human mind can devise ways and means to gradually take the human out of the equation. The trade and industrial interplay can go on as before but with more and more people being excluded from the process, the gap between the haves and the have nots will expand at a rate never seen before as the profit becomes more and more refined to that section of society which can invest in the new technology. 

And what of us, the people. 

Already economists are talking of paying some sort of gratuity to people, either at the start of their lives or peace meal throughout life, a sort of living wage (the living will be defined by someone else) which will be bequeathed until they can devise some sort of way to bring population numbers down. 

Security forces will have to be kept on standby to protect "assets" and keep recalcitrant trouble makes in line with policy.   

The attitude to the worthiness of people and their entitlement will have to be reviewed since theirs is no longer an earned relationship with the state but a welfare one, on a massive scale, and you see already how program makers for certain tv channels depict the beneficiaries of the current welfare state.

With all that free time and a small stipend in our pockets how will we survive before collectively going mad. Without any sense of worth or opportunity how can we survive.

Perhaps the royal estates can be turned over for allotment use and peoples creative juices stimulated by the size of your marrow !!

Is there any use in resisting change. Has Globalisation been slowed by the claims of being blind to the subjugation of people across the globe at the behest of a few multinational companies and their shareholders. 

Is anyone fighting our corner.

We have of course been here before.  The term Luddite was coined to describe a person who resisted change and smashed the machinery which was taking his living away. 

The police, law enforcement, the judiciary, that private army used to curb the rash interest of the population as a whole is waiting in the wings to quell any revolt. The Establishment have historically used what ever force necessary to keep their interests alive and unless there is a will to fight, unlikely in our community, softened by years of sweets and propaganda, we will do as we are told.

Brave new world, 1984, it was all foretold but we read it as fiction not fact. Surely we are all the same flesh and blood, they wouldn't do that to us would they, would they ?