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Afghanistan Called First "Robotic War"
"Fareed Zakaria (Editor of Time, CNN GPS) writes that one in 50 USA combatants in Afghanistan is now a robot. There are more fighting robots than elevators in the country. Article has links to film of robots in action, allusions to Terminator films."

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It cracks me up. Tick the currently working robots off on your fingers.

• Manufacturing
• Making war
• Autonomous vehicles
• Bomb disposal (more than remote control)
• vacuuming

Jobs coming soon to a robot near you.

• Autonomous surgery (not remote control)
• Commercial flights
• Taxi cabs
• Buses
• Trains
• Long haul trucking

The next logical step is all those jobs that are dangerous and too likely to provide opportunities for corruption for people to do.

• Soldiers
• Miners

I've thought for years that the reason we have such a poor border policy is to prevent Americans from taking the jobs they won't do. Perhaps those menial jobs will be taken by robots. It would make the transition much easier if the people who have those jobs currently were more easily denied rights. Shoving them aside would be much easier if they had few rights.

That is giving our government too much credit. Robots will never be aloud to take the place of voters. Right? Who would be Left to govern?