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I like Star Trek a lot but it’s like the worst prediction of the future of automation possible. All the clueless middle manager bureaucrat jobs are still there, but all the messy grunt work AND the hard leadership has been either automated away or rendered moot by abundance.
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These are people who think in terms of percentages and moving resource budgets around. It sounds techie but it’s middle management spreadsheet work. They have replicator tech but can’t automate shield power redistribution calculations for optimal survivability? 🙄
In actual tech history, the middle is the part that’s being automated away the fastest. If your job sounds like reroute this, recalibrate that, remodulate the other... yeah it’s going away
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Starships visions that sound like a realistic consequence of the tech assumptions don’t sound pleasant to live in. I don’t think I’d enjoy a Culture starship for example.
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I love the way Star Trek copied the ancient British naval convention of the midshipman reporting something to the officer of the watch, who then repeats it to the captain. …and the computer has replaced the midshipman, not the officer of the watch.
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