[karajorma]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18817_5-reasons-future-will-be-ruled-by-b.s..html

He actually makes a quite interesting argument here. It serves as a counterpoint to all those people who believe that a Star Trek universe could never happen cause people need money.

[Klaustrophobia]

Work for the post office? You're just a human spambot
 

[Akalabeth Angel]

Yeah but most of what he talks about is non-physical entities. Give me a house, food and clothing I don't have to pay for and then we'll have star trek.

[headdie]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18817_5-reasons-future-will-be-ruled-by-b.s..html

He actually makes a quite interesting argument here. It serves as a counterpoint to all those people who believe that a Star Trek universe could never happen cause people need money.

So basically we only need money now because we believe we need money because that's what we have done since cave men swapped a fur for a steak so for thousands of years that is the only way we have been able to get what we want as individuals.  Who is going to start the Social engineering of the entire world to change this view point, though might i suggest waiting another 50-100 years until we have industrial robots capable of manufacturing most of the goods we need without human supervision.

[Colonol Dekker]

Give me a house, food and clothing I don't have to pay for and then we'll have star trek.

 
All the single mums on my estate are the founders of the federation.

[newman]

Who wants to live in that sterile boring Star Trek universe anyway? Give me Blade Runner over that any day of the week

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Who wants to live in that sterile boring Star Trek universe anyway? Give me Blade Runner over that any day of the week

I thought you wanted TBP so you could have your own Omega?

[newman]

Firefly FTW.

[Scourge of Ages]

That is some kinda scary article, because it's extremely plausible.

I recommend: Links to Cracked articles shall replace links to tvtropes.org articles. Who's with me!?

[newman]

Cue awkward silence..

[Scourge of Ages]

Cue awkward silence..

Cut us a break, we here in the Americas should all be sleeping right at this minute, or getting up early for stupid work.
EDIT: here ya go: http://www.cracked.com/article/181_the-6-creepiest-places-earth/
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[Galemp]

I agree that the world of media is a huge cloud of FARTS.

[Polpolion]

Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of Debian GNU/Linux and all of its repos, not to mention all other open source software (including the only reason that this place even exists anymore ).

[Spicious]

Open source is not the same as free.

[General Battuta]

Great read, was awesome.

Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of Debian GNU/Linux and all of its repos, not to mention all other open source software (including the only reason that this place even exists anymore ).

Not particularly what the article was about. Bottled water is a much better example. Or ebooks.

[Qent]

Um, no. We still live in a world of scarcity. If energy really were limitless, then corporations wouldn't need our money because they could get whatever they wanted for free, same as us.

[Polpolion]

Great read, was awesome.

Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of Debian GNU/Linux and all of its repos, not to mention all other open source software (including the only reason that this place even exists anymore ).

Not particularly what the article was about. Bottled water is a much better example. Or ebooks.

Well of course it's not what the article was talking about because the article was fear mongering. It did mention Windows 7 and its arbitrarily limited functionality, I can confidently guess that no open source software suffers from the same issues. It's just that this doesn't solve the entire problem, just the ones with software. The difference is that you can always just not buy bottled water, and you can always just transplant ebooks to DRM free plaintext, or if you really want it jpegs.

[General Battuta]

Great read, was awesome.

Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of Debian GNU/Linux and all of its repos, not to mention all other open source software (including the only reason that this place even exists anymore ).

Not particularly what the article was about. Bottled water is a much better example. Or ebooks.

Well of course it's not what the article was talking about because the article was fear mongering.

No, the article was on Cracked.

The argument being made is that while you may be able to not buy bottled water or transplant ebooks, eventually you will be rendered digitally redundant, and what happens then?

This was one of my gripes with Richard Morgan's otherwise excellent books. They can stack you, they can copy you (otherwise multiple sleeving wouldn't be possible), and yet there's still any kind of demand for individual labor? (His last book sort of tackled it.) Get one ideal worker and sleeve them in a bunch of synths.

[StarSlayer]

I call shenanigans.  It's a world without motivation.

[Polpolion]

No, the article was on Cracked.

The argument being made is that while you may be able to not buy bottled water or transplant ebooks, eventually you will be rendered digitally redundant, and what happens then?

This was one of my gripes with Richard Morgan's otherwise excellent books. They can stack you, they can copy you (otherwise multiple sleeving wouldn't be possible), and yet there's still any kind of demand for individual labor? (His last book sort of tackled it.) Get one ideal worker and sleeve them in a bunch of synths.

That won't happen. That's like saying "WHAT IF WE WERE FORCED TO USE BATTERIES FOR EVERYTHING?" This is why we also have government able to regulate things like tap water. The government, in theory, exists solely for our benefit. Why would it want to get rid of tap water and force us to pay x20000 more for water? It wouldn't, because we'd tell it that we don't want to. And you can always circumvent ebook DRM by taking a picture of the screen, whether a screen-shot or not. If you don't want it that badly, then you obviously don't care enough to complain, so there's no problem.