The average person has little idea of the state of robotics today.

SpaceX flew four astronauts to the Space Station, bringing 4 home on Wednesday. It is all done by computer, from the launch to orbit, the mid-course burns to raise the orbit and increase the speed to catch the Space Station, the approach and docking.

Lots of humans watching and ready to step in if there were an emergency, but mostly they just sit back and watch. Somebody still must write the programs, though.

Airplanes can land themselves. The pilots turn off the auto-pilot just for the fun of flying the plane and keeping their skills sharp. When the computer glitches though, pilots mean the difference between living and dying. Those “glitches” on the 737 Max were caused by Boeing’s greed and bad management.

If you go on YouTube and watch some behind the scene videos of filmmaking, you will be astonished at just how much of what you see on the screen is totally computer generated.

We as a society rapidly need to get to the concept of simply giving people money to live an ordinary existence. Take piano lessons. Learn to paint, write poetry. Or do nothing but relax.

But the prevailing attitude is “Why should I work and pay taxes, so those lazy bums can get free stuff?”

But in 100 years, maybe we’ll all be lazy bums. I, personally, don’t think I’d like living in a time like that. See the movie Idiocracy for a preview of that kind of future.