Online reflection 2

I have decided to discuss the TED talk "are droids taking our jobs?"  by Andrew McAFees.
http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our_jobs#t-90051

Before I watch this, I thought of course droids and machines are getting better and can therefore replace more and more people. While it's true that someone has to build the robots and maintain them, but that's fewer and more calcified people so jobs are still lost.

The beginning wasn't surprising at all to me, it was just as I thought.  If something did bother me it was the fact that the companies made so much more by simply abandon people.
Moving on to the human vs. "machine" part. I'm still not surprised by these facts but then again I have lived through it, and I'm not that old (22 if you most know). But thinking back on how life was back as a kid, you start to realize exactly what Andrews trying to say; which is something we tend to forget, the technology is evolving faster and faster.

Personally I don't think it's fair to call the human/robot work transition the greatest challenge yet, not with how we treat other people, the environment and animals. That's harder to fix then to simple say; "No we can't allow machines to take over more jobs so companies most hire people (with the right knowledge and skills of course) instead of machines". Unfortunately money rules the world so I don't see anyone even consider this as an option.

From here on we start to disagree more and more, I'm more of a pessimist and say how are we going to have a working economy if on one works and gets money? I would like to hear the solution to this problem.
There is good parts to, like the fishing village in India. The technology helped them improve their life. The problem is if there is too much technology, like we have here. It does improve our life to but it's also taking over more and more of our days. I know I would have a big problem not using a Smartphone or a computer for a full day.  So as long as the machines can help us, there is no problem, but when the start to take over our life (jobs, hobbies etc) then problem starts.

By the end when he says "It's gonna give us more time, and what we are going to do is reduce poverty and drudgery ad misery around the world".
I don't agree with this at all, in fact I believe could get worse. Not that mankind is pure evil but we do have a pretty bad record of treating each other nice. Not to mention that jobs keeps us from boredom, will a person with unlimited time never be bored enough to think, maybe I should do something less good just for fun. If one does it someone is sure to follow or to get revenge on the first guy. Hopefully someone will realize this problem early on and try to stop it.

We ain't seen nothing yet..... and I hope it's not going to be like a sci-fi movie.