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Comment Re:The coming job apocolypse (Score 1) 736

I wish I had some votes for you.

These boxes might be closer than you think. We are already 'printing' food, perhaps in not so distant future, we just need our weekly protein 'gray-goo' for the foodbox, and you can stuff your face with synthesized goose liver.

And the Power Box, whenever we have cold-fusion (always 10 years away) we might see a household scaled model of it one day.

And the repair box would not repair, you would just dump the broken object into it, and it would print a new one. (See Diamond Age).

Comment Re:It's the billionaires, stupid (Score 1) 736

I don't know why you are marked as stupid, but your comment has a grain of truth in it. The markets for super-yachts with gold-plated toilets are very small and limited, however the market for inexpensive cars and tv's is huge. A 10 billion extra for the super-rich doesn't change much, most of it will probably end up in off-shore accounts, but spread the same amount in the middle-class, or even the poorest, and the most of the money will quickly go back into the economy...

Comment Re:The Jetsons (Score 1) 736

That's the problem. Employers are very reluctant so shorten hours. The working week seems to be stuck around 40 hours since WWII. It was getting shorter since the beginning from last century, down from just under 60. (http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/whaples.work.hours.us)

But even with all the automation progress since the WWII, and especially in the last 40 years (computers, robotics), the 40 hour week still remains. (Warning, armchair theory coming up!) I suspect it is psychological, probably related to the employer reluctance of allowing people to work from home. "They might be goofing off, watching cartoons in their underwear instead of sitting in their cubicle, suited up!"
As a solo programmer in a company, I could technically work anywhere in the world, as long as I have an internet connection.
And I would actually be ok with fewer hours instead of few bucks more.

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