Posted: Feb 23, 2017 6:15 pm
by tuco
From the article:

Google-founded Calico recently forged a $1.5bn agreement with drug manufacturer AbbVie to help research solutions to ageing and age-related diseases. After the announcement SENS CEO Mike Kope issued a statement saying the deal highlights the “potential astronomical scale” of an anti-ageing industry.


Indeed. Businesses, the very few powerful folks, want nothing else but astronomical scale of industry. It makes little sense for businesses to have robots producing stuff while having no customers to sell it to.

btw how will climate change cull a large chunk of population? By forcing them to migrate and then drown in the Mediterranean Sea? lol oh wait!