From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Oct 12 1999 - 16:48:46 MDT
There was a time when everyone on the planet was a farmer. Now, in
America, it's one in fifty. In a sense, food has ceased to be a problem
for the vast majority of the population; now it's TV sets. Maybe
someday work itself will go the way of everyone being a farmer,
amputations without anesthetic... The economy will just run itself.
"The Nirvana of ecommerce is a software agent buying a digital product
and paying for it with cybercash" - to paraphrase Quidnunc. I can
easily see the day most of the economy runs without human intervention.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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