Sometimes I have a bad feeling about it, especially when we test prototypes and nearby farmers come to watch it. Some are cool with it and ask questions like "So I can just click on a button at home and that thing will harvest the whole field without me? That's great", but others have a look in their eyes, a fearful one. They think about being replaced, being unemployed, having no future.
Then you ask yourself is this really the world you want your children to live in? And in the end it doesn't matter if you want or not, because it will be the world of your children. One way or another.
The further the majority of people become over socialized, and lose the basic skills needed to provide ones basic needs, the greater the risk that the entirety of our civilization will crumble if key infrastructure fails.
If the power grid failed in our grandparents age, society would be in a much better position to keep itself alive than in today’s society where most people don’t even maintain a garden.
The more complicated the machinery, the fewer people there are who understand every aspect of it. As technology grows in complexity, our technicians understanding grows increasingly abstracted from the underlying architecture.
I won’t be surprised if we see systems designed and diagnosed primarily by machines. This is a very fragile place to be. The loss of top to bottom understanding manifests in bugs that get obfuscated away rather than fixed.
Just think of how much of today’s world is dependent on cloud resources. You see how much of the internet breaks of Google or AWS has an outage. It is only going to get harder to emerge from a catastrophe as we become more dependent on complex technology.
Sometimes I have a bad feeling about it, especially when we test prototypes and nearby farmers come to watch it. Some are cool with it and ask questions like "So I can just click on a button at home and that thing will harvest the whole field without me? That's great", but others have a look in their eyes, a fearful one. They think about being replaced, being unemployed, having no future.
Then you ask yourself is this really the world you want your children to live in? And in the end it doesn't matter if you want or not, because it will be the world of your children. One way or another.
I think that we progressed too far (technologically) to ever fall back into a dark ages timeline.
The further the majority of people become over socialized, and lose the basic skills needed to provide ones basic needs, the greater the risk that the entirety of our civilization will crumble if key infrastructure fails.
If the power grid failed in our grandparents age, society would be in a much better position to keep itself alive than in today’s society where most people don’t even maintain a garden.
The more complicated the machinery, the fewer people there are who understand every aspect of it. As technology grows in complexity, our technicians understanding grows increasingly abstracted from the underlying architecture.
I won’t be surprised if we see systems designed and diagnosed primarily by machines. This is a very fragile place to be. The loss of top to bottom understanding manifests in bugs that get obfuscated away rather than fixed.
Just think of how much of today’s world is dependent on cloud resources. You see how much of the internet breaks of Google or AWS has an outage. It is only going to get harder to emerge from a catastrophe as we become more dependent on complex technology.