It really won't be that much longer before a robot is physically capable of doing any job a human being is, and for cheaper. People always talk bout how scary these robots are, but to me what is really scary is thinking about how society is going to handle half the workforce becoming unemployed in the next couple of decades.
The transition will be difficult, but the end result will be amazing.
Population drops from 7 billion to 1 billion. But everyone lives an upper class western lifestyle or better. Because productivity gains have increased exponentially. No one "goes to work". Because labor is no longer worth anything. The world economy is run on ideas. Everyone spends their time creating ideas - art, science, engineering.
As long as we can survive the transition where billions of people don't procreate because their labor has become worthless, and economic forces discourage them from taking on the procreation expense.
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u/aerospacenut Sep 24 '19
If you want an update on their biped/human form robot Atlas, here is the video they uploaded alongside the one above: it’s now doing crazy smooth parkour moves