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La réflexion de Ria-Sunn me fait penser à une version plus radicale d'une des idées de 1984.
Dans 1984, Orwell prédisait déjà la possibilité d'une quasi-disparition du travail par la machine :
From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent human inequality, had disappeared. If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. And in fact, without being used for any such purpose, but by a sort of automatic process—by producing wealth which it was sometimes impossible not to distribute—the machine did raise the living standards of the average human being very greatly over a period of about fifty years at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction—indeed, in some sense was the destruction—of a hierarchical society. In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared. If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction.
— 1984, Chapter 9.
Le post de Ria-Sunn va encore plus loin avec la disparition définitive de toute forme de travail et une automatisation complète des sociétés humaines.
Je pense qu'on peut facilement démentir la force apparente de cette prévision :
1. Une telle chose ne peut arriver qu'après la singularité technologique (i)
2. Si la singularité technologique est possible (ii), elle rend toute prévision au-delà d'elle même extrêmement difficile (iii)
3. Donc la prévision de Ria-Sunn n'est pas solide
Sources complémentaires :
(i) https://en.wikipedia.org/[...]Technological_singularity

(ii) https://en.wikipedia.org/[...]al_singularity#Criticisms

(iii)

Merci cher confrère d'étayer mon propos, la singularité technologique ne mène t'elle pas irrémédiablement à la mort de l'humanité ?