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That Richard White guy has a blog post of his thoughts on the topic:

http://rrwhite.com/on-the-inevitability-of-automation

And for a shameless self-plug I made a recent blog post on the same topic of automation a couple of weeks back (although from a different angle):

http://standardfuture.com/post/58571196148/a-fully-automated...

Automation in society IS something we (especially as hackers) should feel responsible for discussing, planning for AND acting on.

I know we are some fairly smart people, I just hope that we are all smart enough to take this seriously. :)




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