Who pushes the button?
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Who pushes the button?
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#2"The Machine Stops" by E M Forster is a pretty remarkable science fiction story from around the same time period that the article begins, when people were worrying about over mechanization.
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#3"The Machine Stops" by E M Forster is a pretty remarkable science fiction story from around the same time period that the article begins, when people were worrying about over mechanization. http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
This was amazing. Thank you for recommending it.
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#4>> It is no longer necessary to speak to be served. You step into a hotel, press the button, and a succulent luncheon appears suddenly before your delighted vision.
WTF? Where is this magic hotel? Is this luncheon being displayed as some sort of hologram? The day that a vending machine can produce a "succulent luncheon" is the day robots have taken over. Every recent attempt at robot cooks, even robot waiters, seems to have failed miserably.
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#5>> It is no longer necessary to speak to be served. You step into a hotel, press the button, and a succulent luncheon appears suddenly before your delighted vision. WTF? Where is this magic hotel? Is this luncheon being displayed as some sort of hologram? The day that a vending machine can produce a "succulent luncheon" is the day robots have taken over. Every recent attempt at robot cooks, even robot waiters, seems…
It's a quote about the future written in 1903.
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#6This is definitely an interesting read.
I'd think that in general, we as a civilization are moving closer to instant, on-demand gratification. It's not a trend that's necessarily bad, but it does raise the standards in terms of speed, ease of access, and quality of service.
The most obvious case is email. It started as an inbox and has turned into an extremely fine-grained, organized method. What started as a way to communicate has largely become "too slow" and now there's all sorts of AI to aid this: take Google's smart reply (on https://gmail.com), for example, or Aiko mail's "quick actions" and one click email management (on https://helloaiko.com). We're moving towards an age where it is largely becoming "too slow" to communicate with each other; people just want to press a button and have themselves expressed.
Even texting, which is largely regarded as one of the fastest ways to communicate (_instant_ messaging), suffers from this--it started with autocomplete and Quick Reply, and now Facebook is changing it up with Messenger smart replies (on https://messenger.com).
Again, it's not necessarily a bad trend. It's just one that raises standards pretty high.
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#7>> It is no longer necessary to speak to be served. You step into a hotel, press the button, and a succulent luncheon appears suddenly before your delighted vision. WTF? Where is this magic hotel? Is this luncheon being displayed as some sort of hologram? The day that a vending machine can produce a "succulent luncheon" is the day robots have taken over. Every recent attempt at robot cooks, even robot waiters, seems…
not really. the day a robot can create new dish consistantly that has good and unique palate quality is the day they have taken over. this does not mean theyhave taken over apocalyptically but that they can really take over preaty much very endever we can do.
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#8>> It is no longer necessary to speak to be served. You step into a hotel, press the button, and a succulent luncheon appears suddenly before your delighted vision. WTF? Where is this magic hotel? Is this luncheon being displayed as some sort of hologram? The day that a vending machine can produce a "succulent luncheon" is the day robots have taken over. Every recent attempt at robot cooks, even robot waiters, seems…
Relevant: http://www.moley.com/
Still waiting anxiously for this to come to market...
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#9>> It is no longer necessary to speak to be served. You step into a hotel, press the button, and a succulent luncheon appears suddenly before your delighted vision. WTF? Where is this magic hotel? Is this luncheon being displayed as some sort of hologram? The day that a vending machine can produce a "succulent luncheon" is the day robots have taken over. Every recent attempt at robot cooks, even robot waiters, seems…
When did you last go to a fast food joint? The food is still produced and delivered by humans, but it's ordered via an app or touchscreen interface.
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#10>> It is no longer necessary to speak to be served. You step into a hotel, press the button, and a succulent luncheon appears suddenly before your delighted vision. WTF? Where is this magic hotel? Is this luncheon being displayed as some sort of hologram? The day that a vending machine can produce a "succulent luncheon" is the day robots have taken over. Every recent attempt at robot cooks, even robot waiters, seems…
When did you last go to a fast food joint? The food is still produced and delivered by humans, but it's ordered via an app or touchscreen interface.
Yesterday. I drove there in a car piloted by a human. I ordered by talking to a human. I handed cash to a human. My food was prepared by a human and handed to me by a human. For all the tech articles, little has changed since drive-throughs were invented back in the 50s.