This bears a striking resemblance to the Eloi from HG Wells "The Time Machine " - vapid, simple and unconcerned with the large, important issues of life.
Ignoring for a minute the cannibalism of the Morlocks in Wells story, the writer fails to understand that a city such as described must be supported by a morlock class- a large, loud and deeply mechanized industrial base that builds, creates and maintains everything that the writer "rents" in her daily life.
I have spent a career in Machine Shops and Factories, and we are a long, long, long time from getting robots and computers to build everything. This is a pipe dream espoused by glitterati "thought leader" idiots who want Joe Public to believe them savants- they see a mechanized factory in action, and don't see the (often years of) development, design and tuning (and ongoing troubleshooting and maintenance) such a facility requires. An automated facility can eliminate the need for mind numbing, "move a to b" kind of human effort, but it requires a very savvy hands on crew of experta to get and keep it running. Industrial "robots" are (mostly) not intelligent at all, they often just run the same program of "a to b" over and over again.
The WEF likely provides this "glowing" future vision with the unmentioned caveat that hundreds of slave laborers support each of the chattering classes who own nothing-these laborers themselves likely being owned by shadowy government linked coalitions. Like the Wizard of Oz, the robot/ai manufacturing is the curtain, behind which lurks the same old feudal overlords regular folks have tried to throw off for time immemorial.
I'll own nothing? Come try. From my cold dead hands.
This bears a striking resemblance to the Eloi from HG Wells "The Time Machine " - vapid, simple and unconcerned with the large, important issues of life.
Ignoring for a minute the cannibalism of the Morlocks in Wells story, the writer fails to understand that a city such as described must be supported by a morlock class- a large, loud and deeply mechanized industrial base that builds, creates and maintains everything that the writer "rents" in her daily life.
I have spent a career in Machine Shops and Factories, and we are a long, long, long time from getting robots and computers to build everything. This is a pipe dream espoused by glitterati "thought leader" idiots who want Joe Public to believe them savants- they see a mechanized factory in action, and don't see the (often years of) development, design and tuning (and ongoing troubleshooting and maintenance) such a facility requires. An automated facility can eliminate the need for mind numbing, "move a to b" kind of human effort, but it requires a very savvy hands on crew of experta to get and keep it running. Industrial "robots" are (mostly) not intelligent at all, they often just run the same program of "a to b" over and over again.
The WEF likely provides this "glowing" future vision with the unmentioned caveat that hundreds of slave laborers support each of the chattering classes who own nothing-these laborers themselves likely being owned by shadowy government linked coalitions. Like the Wizard of Oz, the robot/ai manufacturing is the curtain, behind which lurks the same old feudal overlords regular folks have tried to throw off for time immemorial.
I'll own nothing? Come try. From my cold dead hands.