Human Obsolescence
“ Humans will become obsolete”. You hear things like that these days, huh? So machines take care of everything, and you don’t even have to make your bed. But, what do we mean when we say “obsolete”? What is that whole thing humans are suppose to do, and machines are taking it away from them? From the beginning, the idea was to eat and breed like the rest of the animals. We just relied on our brains to outsource the effort, first with tools and a lot of planning, then with machines and software. Are we properly eating and breeding as species now? Nope. Will robots and AI help us to eat and breed better? Maybe. If the animal job were all that it is, humans would become obsolete by machines consuming energy sources and replicating themselves, which they surely could do more efficiently. Then, what’s the other way machines would make humans obsolete? Let’s say “humanity” is a gross exaggeration of what a more simple animal does: play becomes intellectual creation, rudimentary tools g...