Will the use of robots spark a Luddite-style rebellion in the future?
I would like to find articles relating to whether or not the use of robots will spark a luddite-style rebellion in the future
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I suspect the closest you can find to current day "rebellions" would be labor unions at automotive plants being upset about robotic arms replacing jobs on assembly lines.
Usually the implementation of such technology is done with such slow progress it goes greatly unnoticed. As jobs are slowly taken away one by one, people find employment elsewhere. And sometimes in repairing the very thing that replaced their job.
As robotics become increasingly more capable, I think it will continue to slowly benefit us and the change will be slow enough that all of us will adapt and take advantage of the robots doing the tedious work.
Something you might consider looking at is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow was trying to figure out why certain places didn't want to receive the word of God. What he figured out was that specific needs had to be met before the people had "freetime" to devote to religions. And beyond that higher learning and enlightenment. So in order to make a "mission" successful, he helped communities have all the basic needs met "before" trying to convert them.
The point being that a society will embrace an idea as long as it isn't too far above their "needs", and will gladly accept it if it enables them to slowly migrate up the "pyramid of needs".
So selling me a robot to go buy groceries might not work since it doesn't take up too much of my time, but sell me a robot that can do my yard work might work better since that work eats up a great deal of my time. Maybe a bad example, but hopefully you get my point.
you've been watching too much Si fi
Robo-ethics began with science fiction writers but with the developments within robotics it is becoming a serious issue. I suggest you begin with articles in Japan where humanoid robotics are taken seriously:
http://www.scuoladirobotica.it/roboethic.
You can bet the first use will be as a police force. Already in many state prisons are hall monitors that clean floors, scan with infra-red and sniff for the slightest trace of ammonia (urine).
The costs of robotics dictates the government will be the only entities able to afford them at first.
So, no, there won't be any Luddite-style rebellion.
is the free market dumb enough to use robots? goods and services produced by robots will be cheaper, so corporations will be pushed by that logic to use them. but if all goods and services are being produced by robots who will be earning the wages to buy them? no there will not be a Luddite rebellion, do you think people are motivated enough, there is a great deal of poverty about now but very few rebellions.
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Answers:
I suspect the closest you can find to current day "rebellions" would be labor unions at automotive plants being upset about robotic arms replacing jobs on assembly lines.
Usually the implementation of such technology is done with such slow progress it goes greatly unnoticed. As jobs are slowly taken away one by one, people find employment elsewhere. And sometimes in repairing the very thing that replaced their job.
As robotics become increasingly more capable, I think it will continue to slowly benefit us and the change will be slow enough that all of us will adapt and take advantage of the robots doing the tedious work.
Something you might consider looking at is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow was trying to figure out why certain places didn't want to receive the word of God. What he figured out was that specific needs had to be met before the people had "freetime" to devote to religions. And beyond that higher learning and enlightenment. So in order to make a "mission" successful, he helped communities have all the basic needs met "before" trying to convert them.
The point being that a society will embrace an idea as long as it isn't too far above their "needs", and will gladly accept it if it enables them to slowly migrate up the "pyramid of needs".
So selling me a robot to go buy groceries might not work since it doesn't take up too much of my time, but sell me a robot that can do my yard work might work better since that work eats up a great deal of my time. Maybe a bad example, but hopefully you get my point.
you've been watching too much Si fi
Robo-ethics began with science fiction writers but with the developments within robotics it is becoming a serious issue. I suggest you begin with articles in Japan where humanoid robotics are taken seriously:
http://www.scuoladirobotica.it/roboethic.
You can bet the first use will be as a police force. Already in many state prisons are hall monitors that clean floors, scan with infra-red and sniff for the slightest trace of ammonia (urine).
The costs of robotics dictates the government will be the only entities able to afford them at first.
So, no, there won't be any Luddite-style rebellion.
is the free market dumb enough to use robots? goods and services produced by robots will be cheaper, so corporations will be pushed by that logic to use them. but if all goods and services are being produced by robots who will be earning the wages to buy them? no there will not be a Luddite rebellion, do you think people are motivated enough, there is a great deal of poverty about now but very few rebellions.
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