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Is Ben Wallace the 21st Century Sandys?

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Old 31st Jul 2020, 16:32
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Air tankers maybe crewless in future - the USN are looking at crewless refuelling
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Old 31st Jul 2020, 18:49
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Air tankers maybe crewless in future - the USN are looking at crewless refuelling
What will Human Beings do eventually? Everywhere you turn now, and admittedly its being machinating for some years, there is nothing but automation, we're even building Robots which will have organic intelligence and will eventually challenge our very existence. Why? Why are we so keen to render ourselves nothing but, featureless, characterless inert lumps of flesh and bone. I've long maintained, technology is no longer pursued to address aspiration or to inspire, but to prove a point and increased prosperity for a tiny portion of the population, rendering the rest superfluous to any meaningful kind of existence.

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What will Human Beings do eventually? Everywhere you turn now, and admittedly its being machinating for some years, there is nothing but automation, we're even building Robots which will have organic intelligence and will eventually challenge our very existence. Why? Why are we so keen to render ourselves nothing but, featureless, characterless inert lumps of flesh and bone. I've long maintained, technology is no longer pursued to address aspiration or to inspire, but to prove a point and increased prosperity for a tiny portion of the population, rendering the rest superfluous to any meaningful kind of existence.

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Have you been reading Das Kapital or just displaying convergent evolution?
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Have you been reading Das Kapital or just displaying convergent evolution?
Beardy,

I'd call upon the workers to unite but most won't step out the front door except to head off to the Pub or the Beach or to join a demonstration thronging round the streets of somewhere. There is a select few, lucky ones, sat in front of the telly with a laptop from work balanced on their knee honestly contemplating doing some work while watching Lorraine Kelly or whatever. The metal micky take over is here, aided and abetted by its good friend Covid 19!

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"What will Human Beings do eventually?"

Sell houses, write rubbish inthe papers, peddle ridiculous policies as politicians............... oh - and be "personalities" or even worse "influencers"......
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"What will Human Beings do eventually?"

Sell houses, write rubbish inthe papers, peddle ridiculous policies as politicians............... oh - and be "personalities" or even worse "influencers"......
and Game Changers of course!
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