creativity at the core of the robot economy

There are a huge number of speculations about what happens if/when we build robots ‘smarter’ than us. Among the minority in which they don’t exterminate our species or get destroyed trying, some have proposed that human labor would become obsolete. Robots could mine better, for cheaper. If they type like Commander Data, stenographers would be out of work too. So what role for humans? Well, assuming we aren’t turned into sex slaves, or living batteries (depending on which painfully unscientific science fiction vision you turn to), many think we’ll be kept around for our wacky, unpredictable creativity. Like blogs. Or music. Or tinkering. And ya know what? I think that would totally be the life.