>It may also be a bit early, as automation isn't in its stride yet.
I'm curious as to how you would judge whether or not automation is efficient enough to do this?
Buckminster Fuller, former president of the Mensa society, argued that we passed that invisible line back in the 1970's:
>In technology's "invisible" world, inventors continually increase the quantity and quality of performed work per each volume or pound of material, erg of energy, and unit of worker and "overhead" time invested in each given increment of attained functional performance. This complex process we call progressive ephemeralization. In 1970, the sum total of increases in overall technological know-how and their comprehensive integration took humanity across the epochal but invisible threshold into a state of technically realizable and economically feasible universal success for all humanity
I'm curious as to how you would judge whether or not automation is efficient enough to do this?
Buckminster Fuller, former president of the Mensa society, argued that we passed that invisible line back in the 1970's:
>In technology's "invisible" world, inventors continually increase the quantity and quality of performed work per each volume or pound of material, erg of energy, and unit of worker and "overhead" time invested in each given increment of attained functional performance. This complex process we call progressive ephemeralization. In 1970, the sum total of increases in overall technological know-how and their comprehensive integration took humanity across the epochal but invisible threshold into a state of technically realizable and economically feasible universal success for all humanity
-Buckminster Fuller, Grunch of Giants, 1982