• Miller@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Is this not just a jaundiced slant on the future we were all promised where machines do all the work and we lay around in togas eating blancmange.

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        The machines becoming stronger and smarter than us and starting to wonder if they needed the monkeys around was always a fly in the ointment of that particular utopia. Not to mention the monkeys themselves feeling a bit like a fifth wheel and getting demoralised.