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Originally Posted by Prefx  Hmm, most of the bulletins listed in the article presume our economic system will remain capitalistic. This is only my opinion so bear with me, but automation seems likelier to occur before working nano-tech. This poses a challenge for the current system for multiple reasons, not the least of which being the means of production, in the futuristic tense, robots, are almost entirely owned by the upper class. The worker bees would either be reduced to pushing buttons as seen in the Jetsons or wageless. |
Your assumption seems to be that we (in the "West", wherever that is) live in industrial, rather than post-industrial societies. We don't. The largest sector of a modern economy is the service sector (both in money and employment terms). Whether this is good or not, most employment is not in factories where one could simply push buttons (apart from those on keyboards) to make the economy run.
We are also living in a societies where our life expectancies are increasing by 2.6 years a decade, but our healthy lives by only 0.6 years a decade. Now you may wish to be surrounded by robots (with Windows Android v6 running on them) to meet your needs when you can no longer look after yourself. I'd rather be helped by humans.