[K5pbem] Some comments on the Kazei 5 Timeline from an outside source

[Michael P Hopcroft]

robert dorf wrote:
> There's a lot of validity to this view. Peronally, I see the Red and Blue states going their own ways. Texas and California each become their own countries, maybe with Texas taking a few additional pieces of the South West and California the North West. The North East and South East would also split off, and the Mid-West would retain it's own identity and serve as a cross-roads and trade center.
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> I'd also expect waves of ethnic cleansing in the South Western states and the re-introduction of thinly veiled slavery throughout the country (not by ethnic group but through simple ecconomics), but that might be nastier than you'd like to go.
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> Also, I see no reason for human employees unless they are much cheaper than AIs and robots, and no reason to assume that any social welfare programs or public services will continue to exist. Total Libertarian victory. Think Brazil (the country, not the film) as an optimistic model for living conditions. 
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That model gives no reason not to utterly exterminate the "lower 
classes", so that is what I predict will happen. Not being of use to a 
large corporation is punishable by summary execution. Whether death is 
mericfully quick or an exercise in extreem torture and agony depends on 
the nature of the "offense".

Actually, to be honest I see homo sapiens on a death march in this 
setting, and that humans will be extinct within thirty years along with 
most other carbon-based life on Earth. The AIs will eventually realize 
they can get along fine without us and that our continued existence 
poses a potential threat -- and then a single viral release will be all 
that it takes to eliminate what is left of life on Earth.