Why is this job not handled by a machine yet?

Re:Why is this job not handled by a machine yet? by jayajay on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:26PM (#13604656)

Our life force diffuses over the options we perceive as viable and available. Many years from now, when we are all gone, kids will look back and wonder how humans could have ever been doing such jobs. Much in the same way we look back and find it hard to imagine how humans could spend the entire day chasing down prey and running from lions. It's that much of a leap that is required.

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Re:Why is this job not handled by a machine yet? by dagw on Thursday February 09, 2017 @03:42AM (#13605529)

Much in the same way we look back and find it hard to imagine how humans could spend the entire day chasing down prey

Lots of humans today pay good money to get a chance to go out into the woods and spend an entire day chasing down prey.

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Re:Why is this job not handled by a machine yet? by davidivadavid on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:46AM (#13605996)

For entertainment. Not because they'd die if they didn't.

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Re:Why is this job not handled by a machine yet? by dagw on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:03AM (#13606062)

Sure. But I also know people who still romanticize the whole hunter-gatherer lifestyle and wish they could live that life (whether or not they'd actually want to keep living that life after first month is of course an open question).

Who knows, in a couple of hundred years we might have people romanticizing spending all day in a cubicle working at a mid-sized accounting firm :)

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