Thanks for your years of service to the Company, Jim.

[Doktor Howl]

Um, everything is workforce-on-demand.

We have achieved "just on time delivery" for people.

Am I the only one that sees the huge fucking humor potential here?

Yes and no, respectively 

Trevor the MBA is now going to directly supervise the machinists.

OFUK

In related news, Trevor the MBA was found this morning tied up in baling wire wearing nothing but a welding apron with "FUCK OFF" written in temperature wax on his back, and a cutting torch handle wrapped around his head.

His last recollection was telling a millwright to get him a latte.

[Requia ☣]

 

Now that I think about it, this'll never go down on my old bosses.

That would require their bosses to actually see the workforce.  And having somebody whose allowed to make policy decisions actually talk to a call jockey just isn't done in call centers.  That might lead to the executives having a fucking clue what is going on, as opposed to making decisions based entirely on the balance sheet.

[Remington]

second time in a week that i thought this short story seemed somewhat appropriate to link to:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Whoa.

[Doktor Howl]

second time in a week that i thought this short story seemed somewhat appropriate to link to:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Whoa.

AN ABOMINATION!  KILL IT WITH FIRE!

BOY, FETCH MY PITCHFORK!

[Elder Iptuous]

second time in a week that i thought this short story seemed somewhat appropriate to link to:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Whoa.

right?
i love that story!
it takes a turn for crazy, but the initial setup it totally possible.
in fact i'm surprised it's not here already.....

[Doktor Howl]

second time in a week that i thought this short story seemed somewhat appropriate to link to:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Whoa.

right?
i love that story!
it takes a turn for crazy, but the initial setup it totally possible.
in fact i'm surprised it's not here already.....

Who says it isn't?

[Elder Iptuous]

 

you mean a headset system like 'Manna'?

i hadn't heard of one.  i would definitely like to hear about it if there was, though...

[Remington]

second time in a week that i thought this short story seemed somewhat appropriate to link to:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Whoa.

right?
i love that story!
it takes a turn for crazy, but the initial setup it totally possible.
in fact i'm surprised it's not here already.....

It's quite possibly the best thing I've read so far; because pretty much every step of the technology is completely feasible.

[Doktor Howl]

you mean a headset system like 'Manna'?

i hadn't heard of one.  i would definitely like to hear about it if there was, though...

No, the concept in general.

I efile my taxes.  No human ever looks at them.

My job relies on a spreadsheet generated somewhere in Germany, from raw data that is captured from other spreadsheets.

My insurance rates are based on an algorithm created by actuaries and run since by a computer.

Just for starters.

[Elder Iptuous]

ah, yes.
don't forget, that we have an automatically (mis)mannaged economy, too, now! 

[Doktor Howl]

ah, yes.
don't forget, that we have an automatically (mis)mannaged economy, too, now! 

That's not automatic.  That's just the logical result of looting.

[Remington]

Damn. That Manna system just seriously mindfucked me through the eyesocket. It didn't even call afterwards.

[Elder Iptuous]

ah, yes.
don't forget, that we have an automatically (mis)mannaged economy, too, now! 

That's not automatic.  That's just the logical result of looting.

they're saying 70% of all market transactions are executed by black boxes running algorithms, now.  greed built the box, but it's running on autopilot, now....
it is said that the traders and bank managers don't even understand what the quants put in those things.

[Doktor Howl]

ah, yes.
don't forget, that we have an automatically (mis)mannaged economy, too, now! 

That's not automatic.  That's just the logical result of looting.

they're saying 70% of all market transactions are executed by black boxes running algorithms, now.  greed built the box, but it's running on autopilot, now....
it is said that the traders and bank managers don't even understand what the quants put in those things.

Sure, but the recent shenanigans were plotted by people.  A computer didn't install Edward Liddy at AIG.

[Kai]

second time in a week that i thought this short story seemed somewhat appropriate to link to:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

While I am not a transhumanist, let me just say that I would love to live in a society where I had the complete freedom to study and create with no worries about all of the other stuff. That would be the perfect society for a scientist, right there.