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Robots Without a Cause

WG55 writes "Have you noticed that more and more technology is more ingenious than useful? Stuart Jeffries of The Guardian writes in his article Robots without a cause that much technology produced today will change our lives little, if at all. He writes, 'Our response to being bored and rich is not to discard our possessions and live more simply, but to buy more stuff to reduce the space in which we might contemplate our shame.'"

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  1. Welcome by GillBates0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    to the material world.

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    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  2. Re:off topic question... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Man...

    You can almost see right through that guy...

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    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."