I'm just watching a tech show on UK TV called Click. It raises the dilemma of whether robots should be taxed! The idea behind this is the notion that robots will create a deficit in tax revenues as more and more humans become jobless. A rather stark economic vision emerges.
The counter argument appears to be that robots will only take over menial tasks and therefore low-paid, low-tax jobs, thus allowing humans to take up much more skilled and higher tax paying employment. Hmmm.
Apparentky there is a cafe in San Francisco called Cafe X run entirely by robots so I suppose robots are already on the high street.
What do you think readers?
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Whilst doing some minor repairs on my battery-operated Scramble Bug I suddenly thought: could it actually scramble over the regolith on the Moon? Could my toy Moon Prospector really bump n go on it too for that matter? What do you reckon readers?
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One of the video's I've boxed up for a future house move is Slipstream from 1989. It star's Luke Skywalker himself Mark Hamill. I've never watched this film. It sounds interesting on Wikipedia. Have you seen it?
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Some words sound the same or almost the same. I think they're called Homophones like bear and bare, sea and see and lock and loch. One almost-a-homophone I particularly like is sideboard and cyborg. I've often wanted to simply exchange them in conversation and see what happens! Examples might be: just put those keys over there on the cyborg! Is it true that the Bionic Man was a sideboard? ha ha. Can you think of any more half-homophones like these?
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I am getting a small pile of novels together for my annual holiday. Besides some horror I will be taking the Bicentennial Man by Asimov. Is it a good one?
