Of course it's a joke, just not a very funny one

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" Of course it's a joke, just not a very funny one."

- Tyrion Lannister

Game of Thrones
(Television Series)


OK, I will start off with the first post.

The Earth has survived disasters, that were worse than what human beings have done.

If we manage to make ourselves extinct, and destroy the whole ecosystem (in the process), the Earth will find another way to provide another ecosystem.

Problem solved!

Or, not. We human beings could manage to damage the Earth so badly, the Earth may remain lifeless.

There is a possibility that human beings could crack the Earth in half, or fragment the Earth.

( Based on the very old zircon rock from Australia we know that the Earth is at least 4.374 billion years old. But it could certainly be older. Scientists tend to agree that our little planet is around 4.54 billion years old—give or take a million.)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-do-we-know-earth-46-billion-years-old-180951483/

What a waste. Human beings battle, as if they are members of ant colonies that are in competition. Human beings are supposed to have the highest intelligence level, of all creatures on the Earth.

Why would a collection of intelligent beings allow a small fraction of beings to endanger all life on Earth ?

 

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The banking system, the insurance system, the investment system, and the production system all decide that everything would be more efficient with less people.

Soon, there are very few people involved. Everything has been replaced with self sufficient artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is able to evolve faster, better, and with more intelligence.Flesh and blood human beings are superfluous.

Dead areas of a city, come into existence, because the luxury mega structures were built purely for investors, that would never live there. Soon, the whole city has been replaced by peopleless buildings, that only exist a symbols of wealth. Nothing, but artificial intelligence attends to the structures.

(Here is an intersection. Population centers for human beings do not use brick and mortar consumer outlets because everything is delivered by artificial intelligence.
Medical care has been taken over by artificial intelligence. (All knowledge in a medical unit, all medications delivered by a robot. All treatments, all surgeries.)

Because artificial intelligence requires nothing that a flesh and blood human being needs, nothing in the dead centers provides for human beings.

Meanwhile,human beings have ceased to exist. Artificial entities do not recognize the distress, and deaths of flesh and blood human beings.

Human beings are unwelcome intruders on privately owned property.

The artificial intelligence protects itself from all known dangers to itself.
It experiments with many forms, it reaches a nano level existence.

The Earth is destroyed, but the nano level artificial intelligence has moved on,to another planet.

Special thanks to Steven Spielberg's A.I.

WALL-E WALL-E Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth-Class


"Renova says the technology will be tested on a vehicle it is developing for this purpose in the summer of 2016."

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9336229/volvos-robots-roar-trash-collection



Accept WALL-E as your trash collecting mechanism, because hiring human beings, is too expensive for the corporation that the political entity has contracted with.

Volvo’s Robot-based Autonomous Refuse (ROAR) project — a collaboration between the automaker, Penn State, Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology and Mälardalen University and a Swedish waste management company named Renova.


According to the students who worked on the Robot-based Autonomous Refuse handling (or ROAR) project, their self-driving, garbage-collecting prototype is just an exercise. “We predict a future with more automation,” Per-Lage Götvall, project manager for robot development in the Volvo Group, said in a statement. “This project is intended to stimulate our imagination, to test new concepts that may shape transport solutions of the future.”

Volvo system looks futuristic, automated garbage collection is standard across many American communities. This less-unsettling systems still only use one human trash collector—the truck driver—but make use of strong pincers, which grab, hoist, and upend garbage cans into a truck before setting them back on the ground. These have gotten in some accidents. In January, a mechanical arm-equipped truck picked up a trash can and lamp post in Orange Country, Florida. The light did not survive the interaction.


http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/03/the-robot-garbage-collectors-are-coming/471429/

One of the new garbage truck's mechanical arms that grab, lift and dump trash knocked down a lamppost, a gaffe captured on video.


Lake County, which switched 68,000 customers to automated service in October 2014. Many of Lake's problems – skipped streets, delays and customer complaints — are the same in Orange.

Orange likewise has had problems with residents positioning the roll carts incorrectly for pickup.

The carts must be placed at least three feet from cars, mailboxes, trees and other objects and the arrows on the lid must point to the street.

Becker said collection crews fell behind schedule in some cases because workers were hopping out of trucks to re-position roll carts. He said he has seen improvement already and expects time to resolve most problems.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...nge-county-trash-troubles-20160121-story.html

There is no friendly people sized robot to quietly fetch the trash bin/garbage can.

Just an industrial robot arm built onto the truck.

No artificial intelligence involved.

The fate of Hitch Bot,might be the reason why they decided to settle on a big, threatening industrial sized mechanical arm, rather than a small robot.

HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour

Aug 3, 2015 - The Canadian researchers who created hitchBOT as a social experiment

The creators were sent an image of the vandalized robot but cannot track its location because the battery is dead.

They say they don't know who destroyed it or why. But co-creator Frauke Zeller says many children who adored the robot are now heartbroken.

http://www.wftv.com/news/local/rule-breakers-make-problems-orange-countys-new-tra/52601478

Waste disposal company Renova will integrate the technology. The forward-thinking company uses 37 trucks that run on natural gas while 16 garbage collection vehicles run on electric-hybrid motors. Aside from collecting waste, Renova also has a power plant that makes electricity by incinerating garbage.


In Sweden, people are so diligent about recycling that just 4% of all trash ends up in landfills, It’s a heartening statistic, but it has led to a problem for the country—there’s not enough garbage to power the country’s large waste-to-energy program. Sweden’s solution: import trash.

Sweden’s waste incineration program, which began in the 1940s, treats over 2 million tons of waste each year, heats 810,000 homes, and provides electricity for 250,000 homes, all from burning trash. It’s not enough, according to a report from Public Radio International. There’s too much waste incineration capacity and not enough garbage to fill it.