have you seen Alex Rivera's "Sleep Dealer"? — exact same premise.http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0804529/ …
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There's a short story with that EXACT premise BY Hugo-award-winning
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Holy shit, rereading that story now, I see references to hardline immigration bills and a wall on the Mexican border. Wow.
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@bradloncar All the cheap convenience of underpaid housekeeping, without the burden of even rarely acknowledging their humanity!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@bradloncar (also didn't Neal Stephenson have something like this in Snow Crash...?)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@charlesarthur@bradloncar I don't get why this happens when AI will soon be good enough. Educate unskilled workers for skilled jobs -
I think it's insulting and wasteful to keep people in menial/futile labor. Everyone deserves better
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And that's the value of SF writers - they can see the patterns through the noise and extrapolate.
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@bradloncar Wow. That's terrifying.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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certainly Willow Garage has proposed that, but note that Roomba is already way ahead of the poor-country women
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