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Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by ryandrake on Friday October 29, 2021 @11:38AM (#29039759)
Preparing/conditioning today's young adults for the dystopian future, where all our jobs are being done by robots, and the elite class needs to warehouse the rest of us safely away in 2mx2m cells in gigantic concrete honeycomb dormitories, where we're given a TV and one Soma per day.
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Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by rglullis on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:08PM (#29040177)
You won't have any possessions, and you will like it.
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Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by superkuh on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:03PM (#29040116)
If anyone is interested, this is basically the first half of the speculative fiction story, "Mana" (https://marshallbrain.com/manna1) which has been posted here on HN a few times.
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Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by ryandrake on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:15PM (#29040262)
Yea, it seems every year we are moving closer and closer to some dark mixture of Manna, Fifteen Million Merits [1] and Elysium [2], where regular people no longer serve any purpose, and are simply warehoused somewhere to keep them out of the hair of the few rich elite.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)

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Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by r00fus on Friday October 29, 2021 @01:51PM (#29041505)
I don't see automated everything becoming possible in our lifetimes, instead I see dystopian societal collapse due to climate shifts being much more likely.
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