[AshleyO]

This is something I've been thinking about recently.

Robotics are becoming ever more increasingly important.

From the computer to striker drones in the middle east, robotics seem to be able to replace the human element in production.

They can run nearly 24/7 and with innovations in fuel efficiency and new forms of energy tapping, it's conceivable that even the US and many other nations may even be able to wage war without one human boot on the ground.

But ignoring the nasty implications of mechanization, I've been curious as to what it means for those who do other jobs in the world such as a factory worker, a farm hand, a janitor, ect.

With enough robotic know how, many of these jobs can be replaced. Robots that could be programmed to sweep and mop a floor with the right measurements and coordinates of a room could do the job of several janitors for example.

So where does this leave billions and billions of humans in the industrial and productive aspects of economics? What does the human do when machines end up doing almost everything?

Something I was just thinking about lately. We're not yet at that level of technology; but we're getting there. Hell, there's cars that drive themselves now and the US is experimenting with strike drones that I can imagine would mean we'd need less warm bodies in boots to even wage war anymore.