I wonder how it will do when being shot at? My guess is not well.

Government is def meddling in WFH policies of private companies. Bloomberg had an article on this 2/21: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-threat-to-work-from-home-tax-breaks?utm_campaign=instagram-bio-link&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram&utm_content=businessweek

Or what ? give it to Northrop Grumman Lockheed Martin ULA blue origin . The military is gonna military with your taxpayer dollars weather you like it or not

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Have you seen the Kiva robots they bought several years ago? They're partway there already.

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Do you have anything to add to that?

Corporations have been moving any jobs they can overseas for a long time now. WFH if anything accelerated a process that's been ongoing for years. I don't think that WFH is to blame.

What is the point to this? Will the worlds defensive capabilities be solely controlled by independent contractors? Will the threats to expand on its use also be manufactured by independent contractors? One contractor saying they will expand on its missile capabilities. while another will say we need more defensive space platforms?

Probably why it’s in the Futurology sub.

If I'm in a car, I have something to plug my phone into. I then have Google Maps.

If I didn't have my phone, where would I even get a map? They don't sell them at gas stations anymore and I certainly don't keep a map book in the car. Being able to read road signs isn't remarkably useful for navigating somewhere you don't know how to get to. That requires an understanding of the layout of the streets and freeway system, the former of which doesn't even necessarily have a logic to it.

That understanding is only useful in a nearly catastrophic situation. One neither I nor anyone I know has run into in recent memory.

>There are already experimental automated grocery warehouses where robots put together orders.

I'll believe it's feasible when Amazon start using it. If nothing else, they have consistent volume that they can use to amortize the cost of this. Plus I'm pretty sure Jeff Bezos will enjoy not dealing with unflattening news about Amazon warehouse working conditions.

> ...they do not need to be fast or particularly efficient at their jobs.

so i'm going to invest money in cutting edge technology that isn't particularly efficient? wtf?

i already have a partner who follows her rumba around to make sure it gets in all the tough places (while i just get out the vacuum once a week.)

my life has much more enjoyment when i'm not spending my time and energy over-automating simple chores but that's just me.

Meh I'm a data scientist, my work is very non quantifiable it's basically "hey look at all these mountains of data we have and come up with things that can make us money". But still every year I have a performance review where I write up all the things I've done and ways I've helped the company, and they ask some of the people I've done projects for to rate how I did with their requests and requirements and customer service. And that's what they use to measure our performance, not how hard we work or whether we work long hours. And then on top of that I have a weekly check-in with my manager where I discuss all the things I'm working on, my progress, anything I need from them, and any feedback they have for me or I have for them (obviously the former is more important since they can fire me I can't fire them, but good managers will ask for feedback from their reports so they can improve as well). If a manager can't use all of those tools and instead relies on how many hours someone is in a physical office (the online equivalent would be checking if their slack status is away or something), they're just plain a shit manager.

We’ve been in that world for about 15 yrs

>Maybe puts away the groceries too. None of these have to be done especially quickly either.

Mother robot: Shut that fridge door now! Do you think we're made of money??!!

The demand side of the economy needs to adjust for the lower demand. Working from home is the future and it’s not fair to tax workers or companies who are contributing to saving time, money and natural resources.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:

From the article

>Greg Spanjers, program manager for rocket cargo at AFRL, said the military envisions a future when it could be cheaper to send cargo via rocket than by transport aircraft. In a national security or humanitarian crisis, a launch vehicle would fly from Cape Canaveral, for example, and either land on an austere field to deliver cargo or airdrop it.
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>For the rocket cargo program to be viable, Spanjers said, DoD expects to use launch providers that fly frequently so they can offer competitive pricing. “To make this a success, we need a very high launch rate, and we need to have systems that reenter and that can bring a high down mass,” he added.

Also from the article

>If rocket cargo moves forward and the technology matures, the Space Force would take the lead in managing the program and procuring services, he said. “We’re already starting to actively plan for a program standup in the 2026 timeframe.”

Lastly from the article

>Horne said the military is “going to need that infrastructure on orbit, not just for cargo, storage and movement, but for a lot of other applications. We’re gonna need gas tanks in the future. We may even have places where we are manufacturing things,” he added. “We’re going to find military-unique ways to use that from a national security perspective.”

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11azkir/the_future_of_starship_includes_national_security/j9uzsq2/

Or we could stop lining Elon Musk's pockets with taxpayer's money...

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Educators are grappling with how to integrate technology into the learning process already, even before AI becomes ubiquitous. Learning has fundamentally changed in the last 25ish years, having greatly accelerated in the last few due to technological advances and COVID lockdowns.

In the future, AI will hopefully be used in an integrative manner. You can’t fight progress, but we need to embrace that progress is going to occur far faster than it ever has in human history and that we need to find ways to use these tools to further humanity, not as a way to legislate humanity out of society.

Lmfao do we need to pull up the thousands of articles identical to this from the last 70 years. Lmfao

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I'm a teacher. AI will replace education as we know it within this century. My students are already using ChatGTP for independent study. It's more effective than online searches or textbooks, and they can ask it to adapt its answers to help them understand it better.

It's only a matter of time before AI is teaching more effectively and more engagingly than human teachers. Especially via gamification for younger learners. There will be a 1:1 "teacher" to student ratio and it will keep each student in their ZPD (zone of proximal development).