When I was in Kenya, I was visited a university that had a black minister or something to give a talk (I did not attend) and he was called white be cause he was from the US (and automatically rich). Even the poor in the US are insanely rich to people making $2/day in third world countries.
Higher education is cheaper now than it has been in the past. Median college debt is $23,000 and the advantage of having a college education is the highest it has ever been.
My fourth grade teacher brought in Reader's Digest magazines for her class and had them in back for anyone who wanted to read them. I read Soul of a New Machine and liked it so much that I found the real book in the library and read it. I then had to get my EE degree so 'that I could do something similar with my life. Almost twenty years later I was randomly wandering around the bowels of my factory taking a break from a years long death march project and there behind a glass window in the corner of a computer room was a blue and yellow DG Eclipse still in operation. It was cathartic.
I took a few semi conductor materials classes for my EE degree and we never used QM for anything. Maybe for tunneling of diodes, but it was all about PN doping of Si. It took a decades of development (~1960) until devices became small enough where quantum started to have an effect.
Yeah, but after the scsc was cancelled, all those physicists went to wall street. I had a few friends and classmates who did. And we all know what happened next.
Kinda gives new meaning to keeping the kids off the streets.
How so? Computers existed before 1900. QM did not have anything to do with transistors. It's all about energy band gaps in semiconducting material which was also known a long time before QM.
I listen to everyone all of the time then judge what was said, I've found it works better than the alternative. Sometimes even idiots can make good points.
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society could never recover from.
You meant as /s, but it is true. The society that existed pre-industrial revolution no longer exists.
The vast majority of customer service could be replaced by a well designed website.
how quickly
Thirty five to forty years
You just have to create a law saying no unattended automobiles (trucks) allowed. And the attendant must be certified. Problem solved.
Ideas?
I think the Amish will do fine.
Maybe the goal isn't to fix the problem. Once you fix the problem, you are out of a job.
hits minorities much harder
Including Asian minorities?
That would be trivial to automate.
If this were true then why isn't it more common?
When I was in Kenya, I was visited a university that had a black minister or something to give a talk (I did not attend) and he was called white be cause he was from the US (and automatically rich). Even the poor in the US are insanely rich to people making $2/day in third world countries.
Higher education is cheaper now than it has been in the past. Median college debt is $23,000 and the advantage of having a college education is the highest it has ever been.
I'm waiting for a machinist robot and blacksmith robot (I'm not talking about cnc) so I don't have to do anything.
This hasn't been a news for nerds site in some time.
You are not typical.
The US is likely to be in a better position to handle this.
pull on the moon (basic physics). And because global warming causes earthquakes, global warming affects the orbit of Earth's moon.
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I was already into computers with my friend's dad's trs-80, but it got me into engineering.
Same here. Seems like some authors just write to write down words,
My fourth grade teacher brought in Reader's Digest magazines for her class and had them in back for anyone who wanted to read them. I read Soul of a New Machine and liked it so much that I found the real book in the library and read it. I then had to get my EE degree so 'that I could do something similar with my life. Almost twenty years later I was randomly wandering around the bowels of my factory taking a break from a years long death march project and there behind a glass window in the corner of a computer room was a blue and yellow DG Eclipse still in operation. It was cathartic.
I took a few semi conductor materials classes for my EE degree and we never used QM for anything. Maybe for tunneling of diodes, but it was all about PN doping of Si. It took a decades of development (~1960) until devices became small enough where quantum started to have an effect.
Kinda gives new meaning to keeping the kids off the streets.
QM would lead to computers.
How so? Computers existed before 1900. QM did not have anything to do with transistors. It's all about energy band gaps in semiconducting material which was also known a long time before QM.
Why not spend the money on developing superconducting magnets instead of indirectly?
Remarks by the President at the Acceptance of the his Nobel Prize
I listen to everyone all of the time then judge what was said, I've found it works better than the alternative. Sometimes even idiots can make good points.