[xoxoxoBruce]

Like that horse analogy that they used in the video... the horses aren't all dead, it's just that now we ride them for fun instead of work. On beaches and dude ranches and camps for children. You can easily rent half a dozen ponies for a child's birthday party.

First world problem... equine pets are very expensive, and most people can't keep them at home, yet there are plenty of horses. So someone has disposable income, or they're spending the kid's college money in grade school.

I don't care how good the machines get, we are a long, long way off from artificially-generated live-action films.

You don't feel Pixar's films have been worthy. I picture an A level arch-criminal sitting at a console with Tony's wall of optical goodness, and one of those big old studio mics, dictating the plot to the computers, which are generating the movie on the fly.

Teachers (professors may go, but studies have shown again and again that screens are useful but fundamentally cannot compete with human interaction for young children.)

Since when does what's best for Sam and Susie enter into equipment/staffing/budget decisions? After the pool of right-out-of-school-will-work-cheap dries up They'll give the machines another gander. At first they will be there to assist the teacher, like just another piece of AV equipment, but soon the robots will be such a big help, the teacher can handle two classrooms. Then Koch brothers proclaim the robots are people and get two votes each. Maybe my imagination is too far in the future... but


Aside ~ This pdf breaks down the horse population by everything from what states have the most horses/race horses, to h\oaw many are pregnant.