Robot revolution stymied by defective consumers

[james_davis_nicoll]

Current cohort of elderly Japanese don't want robots.

Of course, the people who will make up the elderly by the mid-point of the century aren't the current cohort of elderly, who presumably were young back in the 20s or 30s. Arbitrarily defining "elderly" as 70, the 2050 elderly will be about 20 now and I wonder what that group thinks of robots.

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[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Finland is pursuing that strategy by bringing in African refugees. There are serious problems with their program, but it looks like the thing they're really planning on is integrating the children of the refugees as Finns.

It's almost the strategy I think all of the greying developed countries should adopt. My version would be borders completely open to human beings, citizenship for anybody who learns a modicum of local law, history, language, and culture, and multiple -- not just dual -- citizenship for anybody who wants it. There are other things in my version that are not relevant here. But the point is: it always happens, sooner or later, that the people who call themselves a particular nationality are no longer very much like the people who called themselves that in the past. Either culture change, or migration, or some combination, changes the nation over time. We honor the old version of the nation in history books and glorious full-color epics with gorgeous soundtracks. That's all that's necessary. The color of skin and preferred table condiments of the current population is not important.