In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:57:32 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Most E-Cat reactors will be produced using robots. >> > >Perhaps E-Cat reactors lend themselves to being produced by robots more >than, say, today's wind turbines do. In that case, E-Cat reactors will >reduce employment both in the manufacturing stage and also in the fuel >production stage. > >Solar panels lend themselves to robotic manufacturing more than wind >turbines do, I believe. > >However, in twenty years, everything will be manufactured by robots. So in >that sense, E-Cats will not be any different from wind turbines or internal >combustion engines. In other words, eventually robots will reduce all labor >costs for all manufactured items to zero. Food will also require no human >labor. That is another problem -- or another opportunity, depending on how >you look at it. We have often discussed this issue. > >I think the combination of robots and cold fusion will destroy the value of >human labor even faster than robots alone will do that.
I think this is definitely true of physical human labour. There will be an even greater shift toward mental labour, and probably a reduction in the working week. There will come a time when one "works" for 1 hour a week, and earns enough in that hour to survive comfortably. Jobs will be more esoteric, i.e. keeping an "eye" on things, deciding on the direction that development should take etc. In short providing a human perspective. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
