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2014-03-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Professor: 90% of News Stories to be Written by Computers by 2030

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Posted by Fred 2014-03-26 11:31|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The Pennsylvania avenue will email news to the media. Bye bye labor costs. Obama phone. Obama computer. No need for printed paper. Save a few trees. All mail sent to your computer. No Postal service as it is now. Packages sent to local stores for pick up. Mass transit authorized route planned and approved for pickup or delivery.

Posted by Dale 2014-03-26 11:41|| 2014-03-26 11:41|| Front Page Top

#2 I just programmed my iPad to write story every 5 business days titled "Obama delays Obamacare"

Posted by Airandee 2014-03-26 12:11|| 2014-03-26 12:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Computer-generated stories are still subject to GIGO rules.

And somebody's got to notice the earthquake to write it up.

Posted by Fred 2014-03-26 12:18|| 2014-03-26 12:18|| Front Page Top

#4 What happens if the computer glitches and accidentally posts the real unemployment statistics?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-26 12:36|| 2014-03-26 12:36|| Front Page Top

#5 And somebody's got to notice the earthquake to write it up. Perhaps the seismometers will be send their reports directly to computers to issue automated reports. Lots of amateur weather stations do that already.
Ray Bradbury once wrote a short story about a robotically maintained house that continued to clean itself, with the shadows of its former residents burned into the house's siding by a nuclear blast.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-03-26 13:03|| 2014-03-26 13:03|| Front Page Top

#6 computer: 90% of professors will have cyber subsidies

Posted by lord garth 2014-03-26 13:54|| 2014-03-26 13:54|| Front Page Top

#7 "There Will Come Soft Rains"

Forgot about that one, AH.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-03-26 16:35|| 2014-03-26 16:35|| Front Page Top

#8 AH and Richard, that indeed is a gem of a story.

The poem's damned good too.

Posted by Steve White 2014-03-26 18:44|| 2014-03-26 18:44|| Front Page Top

#9 And read, too. Which is just as well.

Posted by European Conservative 2014-03-26 19:26|| 2014-03-26 19:26|| Front Page Top

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