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Sounds great, doesn’t it! (Best not to dwell on the thought that the [[robo-slave]] serving the grappa and wiping our arses could also wipe the floor with us at [[chess]], if it felt like it.) | Sounds great, doesn’t it! (Best not to dwell on the thought that the [[robo-slave]] serving the grappa and wiping our arses could also wipe the floor with us at [[chess]], if it felt like it.) | ||
Now if something about this scenario nudges your implausibility hooter, you would not be alone: | Now if something about this scenario nudges your implausibility hooter, you would not be alone: that makes two of us. | ||
For one thing, from our [[perspective chauvinism|vantage point]], the last thirty-odd years have been one long technological [[Cambrian explosion]], but so far ''no sign of extra leisure time''. Indeed, it has been quite the opposite experience. | For one thing, from our [[perspective chauvinism|vantage point]], the last thirty-odd years have been one long technological [[Cambrian explosion]], but so far ''no sign of extra leisure time''. Indeed, it has been quite the opposite experience. | ||