Are we moving towards a Wall-E type way of living?

[raildogg]

With "modernization" and the rapid increase in the use of technology, everything is becoming more and more automated. This is requiring less human effort, less human thinking and less human interaction. Press a button and its done.

Now we have things such as the Glass Eye and the self driving car. So we're not too far off from the way things were in Wall-E. Sure, you still have to put clothes on yourself and you still have to get up to get something to drink, but we're heading there. Scientists are designing products constantly to make our lives "easier" and more cozy.

As you saw in that movie, everyone was lazy, unable to move and totally depended on the computers to do everything. I believe we are on our way there under the names of modernization and evolution and progress.

You may share your thoughts please.

 

[Pardus]

Never saw wally-e, however, the fat fucks in our society will never change there lifestyles. These are the people who clog our hospitals with everything from diabetes to high cholesterol to heart disease and they do little to help themselves.

Recently, I saw a family of four whales eating ice cream at the local laundromat, only thing missing was the wide-load sign. Stop eating crap and exercise bitches.

 

[raildogg]

Never saw wally-e, however, the fat fucks in our society will never change there lifestyles. These are the people who clog our hospitals with everything from diabetes to high cholesterol or heart disease and they do little to help themselves.

Recently, I saw a family of four whales eating ice cream at the local laundromat, only thing missing was the wide-load sign. Stop eating crap and exercise bitches.

This is not what the point of the thread was. It's not about fat people or some other group. It's about the collective society desiring an easy life that is made convenient in every way with the aid of computers and robots. We see new gadgets and technologies being released every week designed to make our lives "easier."

Easier in the sense we have to spend less effort doing it. If we keep going this way, we wouldn't even have to get out of our chairs to do anything. Some may not see anything wrong with this. In fact, many people are totally awed by gadgets and gizmos.

 

[effowe]

We're already there, friend.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I think we're looking more at Blade Runner in the future.

 

[bradly1101]

And the trash, my god the trash. It'll be a combination of Blade Runner and The Fifth Element, with the trash and laziness of Wall-E.

 

[IronWing]

I think we're looking more at Blade Runner in the future.

This. Blade Runner was amazingly accurate in its predictions. Blade Runner + Bob Roberts = modern America.

 

[Thermalzeal]

It's not modernization that's the problem. It's that people with subpar genetic material procreate far easier than people who matter.

 

[styrafoam]

We are, but the only people who will be able to afford to live in a manor which evokes thoughts of Wall-E are the 1%ers, the investor class, the sociopath university grads, and the misanthropic IT and software engineers. The rest of us will fight over the last bits of humus in the Whole Foods waste barge on the garbage planet. Have fun in your hover chair fat asses.

 

[AViking]

With all this technology freeing up our time you would think we would have lots of vacation and extra hobbies.

 

[Imaginer]

Self driving cars? You can give me one after you pry my pick up and motorcycle out of my hands after the Toyota Camary HAL9000 LX runs me over from a driver content with the auto pilot being always on, set to ludicrous speed.

Or if it becomes another Congress mandate...

 

[Imaginer]

We're already there, friend.

Not going to lie, but yes I have and did with my Surface Pro 2 on my chest, in my bed.

Trackball at my side, for some Steam gaming for those titles that needed it.

 

[lxskllr]

We are, but the only people who will be able to afford to live in a manor which evokes thoughts of Wall-E are the 1%ers, the investor class, the sociopath university grads, and the misanthropic IT and software engineers. The rest of us will fight over the last bits of humus in the Whole Foods waste barge on the garbage planet. Have fun in your hover chair fat asses.

I prefer my manor to evoke thoughts of Tudor England.

 

[styrafoam]

I prefer my manor to evoke thoughts of Tudor England.

The manner of your manor is inversely proportional to the angle of your dangle.

 

[Doppel]

I think so. Automation is going to replace an increasing number of jobs, leaving us a population kept by our machines. Most with nothing to do watch tv and similar, so wall-e.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Never saw wally-e, however, the fat fucks in our society will never change there lifestyles. These are the people who clog our hospitals with everything from diabetes to high cholesterol to heart disease and they do little to help themselves.

Recently, I saw a family of four whales eating ice cream at the local laundromat, only thing missing was the wide-load sign. Stop eating crap and exercise bitches.

always one like you in the crowd!!

 

[mikeymikec]

And the trash, my god the trash.

TBH that's what I thought this thread was going to be about.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I think so. Automation is going to replace an increasing number of jobs, leaving us a population kept by our machines. Most with nothing to do watch tv and similar, so wall-e.

I think you are missing an important point. If you do nothing you aren't worth maintaining. The false assumption is that we have a guarantee by birth or whatever to be kept. Nope. Those who have control (and there will always be that) will simply not care. Unless you have Von Neumann machines with inexhaustible resources before massive unemployment (not likely) then we become a two tier society. If the machines ever do become sentient and in charge then we are redundant. Not "skynet" so much as we become about as important as ants. If we become a problem then we get sprayed.

There are ways around most of this, but to implement them would take planning and effort in advance of crisis. Chances of that happening? Make a wish as it might be more effective.

 

[Merad]

I think that we will have the chance to transform into a post-scarcity society within this century. As automation of all types continues to increase there will simply be nothing for the "average" person to do unless they just want a pointless type job for fun. At that point I think we could either branch one of two ways: either into a Wall-E type society where the average person just eats, watches TV, and fucks until the system collapses under an unsupportable population, or a more Star Trek style society where people actually use their free time to pursue their interests and better themselves.

 

[Merad]

I think you are missing an important point. If you do nothing you aren't worth maintaining. The false assumption is that we have a guarantee by birth or whatever to be kept. Nope. Those who have control (and there will always be that) will simply not care.

Even in a first world country well over 50% of the population is going to become redundant within the next 50 years. If you try to straight up exterminate them or force them all to live in squalor you will end up with a revolution.

 

[Thebobo]

.....and they do little to help themselves.
......

Thats not true I help myself to seconds and thirds at the all you can eat all the time.

 

[spacejamz]

Moving more towards Idiocracy than Wall-E...

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Even in a first world country well over 50% of the population is going to become redundant within the next 50 years. If you try to straight up exterminate them or force them all to live in squalor you will end up with a revolution.

And who will they shoot, each other? Burn technology? Go back to pre-industrial revolution? A revolution with what? Protests in internet forums? Most nations have removed the civil populations capacity to do anything other than grumble. Besides this isn't going to happen one day, but over time and the politicians will tell people that they are going to rescue them because their party is best and it will work. Go to P&N and you'll see it every day, many times a day. We are sheep and no mistake.

 

[Jaskalas]

Humanity decoupled for the labors of production is hardly imaginable.

Too foreign a concept for us to truly grasp. Yet I do believe that is our future if we hold it together long enough. Surviving the transition may be rough, because in order to get there labor will have to be devalued. Yet we still think of jobs, wages via labor, to be the means of survival. It's revolutionary and we must be cautious that it does not turn too violent.

Thing about Wall-E to remember, human labor didn't exist. How do we achieve that?

 

[DesiPower]

We are struggling to keep one space station afloat... forget about a whole floating city, centuries away.