SOME SORTA STRANGE SOOTHING THOUGHTS I THINK?
What follows is rambling entry that crosses over from far-reaching places such as self-driving cars, toilets, and government. It deals with the anxiety of jobs created and lost and a new blog I will start on that.
Be gentle with the diversity and enjoy the thinking if it brings any to mind. i will get back to a more focused entry pattern on this blog on my next post (after the Top 10) for now enjoy any of this you can..
Oh yeah and the video is just some strange eye candy I did while I was waiting for some technology to boot up. Don't freak—-
And Remember we are celebrating MLK day today( originally posted last January) which was a day to remember workers equality as much as ethnicity or race.. anyway the pre-prologue for this is over…. read on.
It’s like really cold outside this morning and I am glad eventually everyone (or almost everyone) in our part of the world has reached the level of affluence needed to have indoor plumbing,efficient if not affordable heating, and we have as a society decided that training and paying people to take care of these things is worthwhile.
But I didn’t sit down to comment on your toilet this morning so if that’s what you wanted to read about I apologize right up front.
In the past few days I have spent hours reading, watching news reports, and crusing YouTube researching the “progress” of “self-driving vehicles.” Like “the Wall” it seems everyone has both an opinion and some anxiety regarding this new and inevitable technology.
I am launching a blog on another page that will make my thoughts very evident, however, for this blog I wanted to put some facts out there and leave people with some peace about whatever happens next.
Really smart people are starting to get involved in all aspects of this including what happens to the job market. The hard questions about personal choice—who will profit the most—and information privacy and security are also moving forward at the same speed as the science of making these things work.
Will there be some questions to deal with…well… yes. However, we also asked what would all the stage coach drivers do? Oh and did the world end when the keypunch operators and telegraph tappers sort of disappeared from the classified ads?
Oh and just a couple more questions come to mind…. do you think the first person who flushed an upstairs toilet in their house wondered if that stuff was going to wind up where it was supposed to?
But when it comes to the self-driving thing… just know that you have people thinking about important things and at least inn the US as citizens we had better start urging our government folks to start working on these matters a bit more so that our schools, roads, purchasing systems etc are also ready… because of course if there’s if there is one part of this whole thing where it is hard to see progress it is in that corner of the world. …and since that is pretty regular these days… well maybe that should bring you some peace.
In the end there is a bit of irony here. We are feeling anxiety about machines that may make us feel like less humans are needed and forgetting that the purpose of these machines is to get more people to places where more people can be together acting humanly.
If you have read this far I thank you and please send me an email comment if you have thoughts.
Peace
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