RE: Fear of Life (was Microsoft, Automation)

From: Jones, Spike (spike.jones@lmco.com)
Date: Fri May 01 1998 - 17:42:38 MDT


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        From: Lee Daniel Crocker
        Reply To: extropians@extropy.com
        Sent: Friday, May 1, 1998 12:33 PM
        To: extropians@extropy.com
        Subject: Fear of Life (was Microsoft, Automation)

>clearly contrary to the evidence
>that no machine have ever taken a job without creating five.

yup. we may be seeing the fear that the five jobs
created are for people *other* than the one displaced.
it might be early yet for extropians to declare victory over
the problem of creating a society that has no need for
its less qualified members. spike



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