Back to episode — Episode 1817 Scott Adams - It's Time For President Harris To Take Over For Decomposing Joe Biden
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right in front of you, right in front of you, and you know, shamelessly. Are you worried about robots taking your jobs? Do you think robots will put us all out of work in the future? Well, let me give you some context here. It's happened once before. Robots already took all of our jobs once. Well, I'm extending the definition of robot to, let's say, a farm tractor and industrial farming, which is…
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Now, do you remember — if you're a certain age, you might remember that there were predictions that television, you know, the invention of television would make the radio go away, because, you know, who's going to want to listen when you can listen and watch? But what happened? Well, nobody saw Rush Limbaugh coming, and suddenly talk radio makes sense. Suddenly if you're driving and you get caught in traffic — oh yeah, it turns out the traffic is getting worse and worse, so we spend more and more time in our cars. So radio is more important. So predicting that TV would kill radio, that didn't work out.
How about, do you remember when everybody said the computers would
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make us a paperless office? So when you went to work you'd have your computer but no paper. It wouldn't need any paper. Yeah, let me show you my paperless office here. Here's my paperless office. The paper's all over it. Papers, papers. Yup, it's 2022. Do you know what's the best way to handle some things? Paper. Do you know why I printed out my notes on paper? Because it works better. It works b…
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