Woes of the past and the death of the present day look at the future

To those excited with the new twists of A I and how it seems to do everything for you, you are selling your existence to technology, that we have now lost control of. The allure of money and fame is the God of present day it would appear. IF we could only see the future with no “real” emotions, creations from our own minds, words uttered by our human lips and love given to one another we might hesitate. As for now the race to the bottom is too fast to grab onto and the world lets it continue. As people we are weak to new things that are initially fascinating, shiny and different. Here lies the danger to absorb the latest and greatest that seems to be developed every week or day. If we state things as they are we must admit the future and the downfall of the human race are being devalued and the worth of artificial is exploding upward. To have no conscience about the future and its people makes no sense to me. The closest thing I can imagine is to prepare a long drive into a tunnel and the falling into a deep ravine with certain death. The ride and the scenery is now, the end of the tunnel and the edge of the cliff is just around the next corner as we plummet into nothingness. IF you have children as a parent you must be aware of this and try to fight back in whatever way you can. Understanding we are just the small guys and the money machine keeps pushing us all out of the way to give the world’s money grabbers more powerful and continue the expansion of the very rich and leaving the rest of society to fend for themselves. Please listen to today’s audio: John Boorman on "Domestic Robots" "Just as generals are always fighting the last war, so politicians are fighting the last election, or more often, elections of 20 years ago. The almost religious belief in the wisdom of the Market excuses its advocates from thinking about its catastrophic effects in a rapidly changing world. In writing this play I have made the optimistic assumption that a visionary statesman will arise. He, or more likely she, will see that robots are creating huge wealth and mass unemployment. She will appropriate that wealth to the state and provide every adult with a comfortable stipend, an arrangement already in place in some countries. Wind and wave energy will provide all the electricity the nation requires leaving a huge surplus which will be exported. Our leaky old water pipes will be cleverly replaced by inserting new pipes inside the old ones. This will create a water surplus which tankers will ferry to the Middle East. Ireland’s rain will become its greatest asset and clean water will cost more than oil per gallon. All-electric vehicles, clean energy and vegetarianism will solve climate change. Nations will agree to reduce their populations to the level that the planet can support. All nations measure their success by growth of GNP. They will have to learn that growth is the one thing we can no longer afford. As all our needs are satisfied by ordering through our domestic robots, money and currencies will simply wither away, as Karl Marx predicted it they would. The pressing problem will then be how to prepare people for a post working Society"