When you think
about technological progress chances are you think about your own
life becoming more convenient. A fire was easier to start with a
chunk of flint than rubbing two sticks together, and once it was
discovered it was utilized out of convenience. Convenience has
always driven innovation, so its not an unrealistic assumption to
expect a more convenient life in the future. Its not all sunshine
and rainbows though, as convenience means work transferred to
machines, which means less work for people. In the past this has
meant a transfer in the job market, old careers being replaced with
new ones, and fields opening up which did not exist before. With
the automation possible today we are seeing an exponential trend of
automation, with more jobs being replaced by machines than are
being
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In Sonia Maasik
and Jack Solomon's anthology Signs of Life in the USA, they include
an essay by Jenkins, in which he introduces his black box
fallacy, stating that humanity will always look for a singular
device that will accomplish virtually every task. Jenkins uses such
examples as smartphones to illustrate the natural pursuit to
converge all our tasks onto one device (Jenkins 427). Jenkins
argues that this is an impossibility, and that as new technology is
developed old technology must adapt. While we may never quite reach
Jenkins black box we can come close, as demonstrated by the very
example he uses. A smartphone may be replaced by a device even more
useful someday, but in the present exists as an invaluable
communication device. Even if society offers resistance at first,
technologies such as 3D printing and APM machines will force
economic reform, and if not those specific technologies it will be
something in the more distant future, with even more
drastic
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