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title: "Paul Schilling Star Trek and Wall-E are  fiction.  If you look at the..."
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# Paul Schilling Star Trek and Wall-E are  fiction.  If you look at the...

*July 16, 2023 — Comment Archer T. Ships replied to his own comment.*

Paul Schilling Star Trek and Wall-E are  fiction.  If you look at the actual history of humanity, some have been worrying about long term technological unemployment since the Luddites.  It's never happened--employment was at 3.7% in the US in 2019, just prior to the pandemic.  We have pocket phones that exceed the capabilities of all NASA's computation, and with the advent of AI / VR, they will be hungry for computation for the foreseeable future. Our ambitions will increase--instead of vacationing to Europe, people will vacation on the moon.  Instead of buying a houseboat, people will by seastead or a spacestead.