On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:35:42 -0600, Ignoramus14709
wrote:

On 2014-12-28, F George McDuffee wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 18:46:56 +0700, John B. Slocomb
wrote:

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"We are sure that our customers will enjoy shopping and being
entertained by robots."

If robots can sell coffee machines I think that they can probably say,
"With Fries?" and it is very likely that if the Nestle experiment
works, and there at present at least one Japanese company that is
currently using robots in their outlets, that companies like
Macdonald's will be looking at the same solution.
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The problem being robots do no drink cocoa or eat
hamburgers... and the displaced workers will still have to
eat.



Maybe they do not have to eat -- or put it another way, we will not
feed them. Then the dumbest half of people will die off, then a half
of what remained, as the robots get smarter.

What a great idea! It would double the average IQ of the USA within a
week! Alas, as we saw in Idiocracy, "they" tend to constantly
multiply. "Hey, let's water the fields with Gatorade!" sigh


Then only one person will remain.

Our hero: the programmer/mechanic.


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