Monday, December 30, 2019

Peace and Joy Pot Luck—Self Driving Cars Indoor Plumbing and Government?





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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