What a purpose in life in an automated world? Do unpaid work like volunteering, personal projects, personal hobbies, and contribute to open source community projects. Paid work is not the only meaning in life. To suggest that is short sighted. Just because it doesn't make a profit doesn't mean it's worthless.
fuck off. I don't collect welfare and hold a median income job. If paid work is the only thing that gives your life meaning, than you are in a sad state.
these jobless scenarios are ridiculous. jobs will exist even in a million years. this isnt the meaning of life as you said. but there is no free/effortless meal either.
I remember going to see 2001 in the theater in the 60's and thinking life would be entirely different . It's not . Sure there's computers but people are the same . We laugh at the same jokes , eat the same foods , cry over the same losses . Only the toys change .
What do people do without jobs? They get hobbies - they become creators. Paint, draw, write, act, play sports - look at kids. They strive to get done with their bs work so they can do the things they want to do. Work is oppressive and kills the spirit - drains energy. Without work, people will still have purpose. If not, in a post work world, let the creative thrive and the non-creative take the easy way out.
Hey I'm a truck driver , I'm very up to date on technology and trends . Trust when I say this. No one knows more about the current state of society and it's future then truckers . I knew about the 2008 crash before most people and so did most truck drivers. The reason is over the road drivers travel all across the country and deliver goods to everyone. We are connected to everything. Without us Tesla would crumble , so would every other tech giant . We are aware and we are looking for alternatives in the future. I dont think people need jobs , they need inspiration and vision....everything stems from that.
MsSomeonenew not about telling fortunes , it's about living in the real world and seeing it. I knew and the other truckers knew because all the freight dried up ........that translates into bad times. Funny how all these " smart" people didn't know. I guess I'm not allowed to see trends because i drive my own truck lol....
+Rugged Technie You were NOT the only one who could EASILY SEE collapse. OBVIOUSLY, because oil is FINITE, a crash WILL come again. But, NOBODY can EXACTLY predict when.
The Ultimate Reductionist could have fooled me. There were alot of people caught with their pants down. By the way your right I wasn't the only one but me being in the trucking industry doesn't exclude me, if anything it makes it more likely that I would know.
Once we have great AI such as Skynet it will kill all people immediately for their own goodness. Its inevitable. People only pollute this world and harm themselves and everything around them. Majority of people /if not all/ are unfortunately bad. They don't think about future but only themselves. They kill animals, pollute air and nature...Look at all that terrorists and religious fanatics. Or US and Western countries. Yes every house in Africa will have clear water and solar energy in 10 years from now. But I doubt they will use it for goodness and studying mathematics. They will only kill more people. All Africa states became independent from colonization in last century and it only led to current state. Like Zimbabwe. I doubt somebody would like to move there. They are not able to live in a democratic state. And I don't see any ideal state in current world. US democracy is far from ideal, EU bureaucrats are even worse, communists in China as well If there was no war in Libya and Gaddafi still rules in Libya there would be smaller problems in Middle East now.
I grew up in Austin Texas. rent was so cheap that people didn't have to work more than part time to make ends meet. I lived in a house with 3 other people and our rent was 300 bucks per month. All bills payed. with all that free time we barbecued and went to the green belt, went tubing, MADE ART. Most of my friends were in bands. That's what made Austin the "live music capital of the world". Now people can barely scrape by working full time. Working for other people's dreams. people don't want to work their lives away doing crap jobs. take away our need to work and we'll find gratifying jobs. We can have a futuristic renaissance creating amazing art and moving out among the stars. There will always be challenges. basic survival shouldn't be one of them. unless that's your kick.
Nobody, especially in your generation, wants to understand what the hell happened. Why everything was so much more affordable back then, than it is now.
I don't agree about people needing a job to have a purpose in life. We don't need a job to have a purpose, we need a job to have money. Without jobs people have no money to spend and companies cannot sell their products or services and then capitalism falls apart. Universal basic income is a great idea to solve this and I think it is unavoidable. The sooner we start rolling this out the better to make the transition easier.
I am so glad someone finally said that in these comments. A person does not have to give us money for time in order for people to have a purpose. Working for wages is relatively a new idea. UBI all the way. Vertical farming at our homes and 3D printing. We will move forward.
UBI doesn't address purpose, it only addresses poverty (which is fine). It's still difficult to imagine a world where people who like to work with their hands (carpenters, electricians, etc) will have literally nothing to do with their lives since the products and services they offer will be replaced by 3D printing. Not everyone wants to sit around playing videogames or sitting in meetings with other silicon valley engineers. (Was I the only one who noticed the glee with which this man talked about being able to sit in meetings remotely, in VR?)
one UBI is gonna need to happen it just is if we wanna keep our econemy functioning without people in poverty revolting(theres more to this but it takes alot of explaining i dont feel like doing) secound people need something to do being happy doesn't work like you think it does its not so much people need a purpose its that if they dont have something to do that actual fulfills that need then they become depressed cause if your always "happy" your not actually happy at least not unless your continuously pumping serotonin into someones brain. personoly i feel the best way to do this would be realistic VR but im pretty shure thats gonna be a hard pill for some people to swallow not to mention im pretty shure its not gonna come before we reach that whole issue of lots of unemployment and people have nothing they find fulfilling to do
There is evidence from several UBI projects that once you remove the immediate need to work for cash to survive people tend to gravitate towards activities best suited to their natural talents and sensibilities. However, I worry about how UBI could be used as leverage to modify citizen's behaviour. You have to jump through a lot of hoops to claim welfare already, how many strings will be attached to UBI? There would have to be protective legislation to stop the government cancelling your UBI if, for example, it's panopticon surveillance system detected your face at a protest march it disagreed with. UBI is a very tempting idea, especially for people in precarious employment, but I think we should proceed with caution because in the end we will all be dependant on the benevolence of whatever government rules us to furnish us with monetary income. Besides, money isn't worth anything in of itself, it's merely a means of exchange for our time and labour. What is labour in the digital age? How much time should a person work a day? Is one person's labour worth more than another's? All these questions need answering first.
André i think what you see in studies if u divide the work, the costs for healthcare etc for employees skyrocket. So its more expensive for companies. And they wont be incentivised to do it.
if anything without jobs ppl would actually at last will do what they trully love instead of doing what they had to do in order to earn $$$.. thats a good thing
That's right!! I think for the majority at least, that's the case.. but of course some people will still complain no matter what.. I'd rather do what I love than work for money to be able to do what I love. :)
*Universal Basic Income* will not be introduced to substitute "social contribution" as he claims but to provide material security and peace of mind for everyone. With UBI, we will finally have freedom to say no and to pursue our aspirations, unlike today when most people cannot afford to take risks or follow dreams but just grind like slaves.
Don't count on it. Right now you're necessary because your work serves to drive the economy. You produce value. Once automation takes all our jobs the elites will have no further use for us. They aren't gonna shell out money every year to keep us alive for nothing when they can have us destroyed in an instant.
That slavish attitude will not help you to better understand. In reality, who owns what is a matter of social contract (not a god given private property bullshit) which maintains sufficient stability, order and prosperity as resources/technological circumstances allow. Once we cross a certain point of instability, disorder and regression, social contract will implicitly or explicitly have to be renegotiated. Peacefully or not. "The elite" is more vulnerable and way less in control than you believe. Once number of people who have nothing to lose rises, that will become plainly obvious. And by the way, most of them are not evil. They are stuck in this system like everyone else, admittedly in somewhat better position. Crucial parameters are order and continuity of civilization, not money which is just a distribution medium. All knowledge/technology is common inheritance of humanity borrowed to individuals for pragmatic reasons (all kinds of property). Each and every one of us never brought anything to this place and we also leave empty handed.
Just like we take good care of our poor now, right? The strong survive, and more technologically advanced groups wipe out their inferiors, or at very best ignore and leave them to the cold. When a small group of players is given godlike powers over the rest of us, what incentive do they have to share? Social contract? Let the masses revolt, how exactly are they going to stand against a god? How are the masses supposed to even organize anyway? Using wiretapped technology? You notice how divided everybody is becoming these days? How isolated? Neighbors no longer even know eachother, people have less friends, rising inequality etc.. the universe trends towards division and chaos..
@@ultimatesin3544 cbdc would be implemented between 2-3 years from now December 2023, we have little time to avoid it,also would be a chip implanted in our bodies and the internet of bodies brain implants would be a reality in 2027 only 3 years from.Some people are saying that blue beam project would be happening ad the end of 2024 and christians think that the tribulation is very near to start so because would be a total slavement and the rfid chip in the hand and in the brain would be the mark of the beast.
Technology will allow freedom to do what we want to do. It may demonitize society, we have food, healthcare, education to pursue higher education as far as we are capable of. Benefit everyone so we can work towards peace, betterment of the world community and fulfillment in doing good. Life is so short.
Actually my life doesn't revolve around my job... I would appreciate if I could just do research and make logical argument books with my time. Really, don't worry about my purpose in life, don't try to influence it (or make me... Do stuff you think it will be great for me) just leave my purpose to me.
Is anyone else tired of tech gurus preaching about tomorrowland? Using buzzwords like disruption, revolutionise, and game changing. Jesus this is like a new religion.
My prediction: Since technology will allow people to work from anywhere, and robots will handle most manufacturing, large cities should become obsolete. People can more readily enjoy the higher quality of life away from high populations.
"free money" vs. "purpose in life". This is a FALSE DICHOTOMY. When, for the majority, the ONLY choices are "free money" or "homelessness" you can bet people are going to start wanting the free money. Talking like there's some kind of mutual exclusivity between the two is the same "define us by our job" thinking that's obsolete.
Mark, he meant "free money" when your other needs are already met. This changes everything. Imagine that your housing, education, health, utilities, food and transportation needs are all there for EVERYONE in the world, to the point that no one would ever think that they need money to have them. Then free money would be just a way of giving you something so you don't participate in the way the world is being shaped. I think that's what he meant.
Yeah, a world where people can just sit around and watch Netflix all day while other people work to provide them with housing, education, health, utilities, food, transportation, and oh yeah, the programming on Netflix. Question is, if we decide that government "owes" everyone all these basic needs plus a UBI, where will we find all the people that will be needed to design, build, and monitor the technology that helps provide all these things? Don't get me wrong, there are a whole host of things I would like to do if money were not a limiting factor. But meaningful employment, an honest day's wage for an honest day's work is an essential part of human dignity. Living off the work of others is degrading to the human soul. UBI seems to ignore this reality.
I am a bit reserved with this "enthusiasm about the future" thing. Back in the mid 1990s when somebody told me about the Internet and about having fast access to information (reading Baudelaire on the web, with a parallel translator), it blew my mind. And what there is today is beyond my expectation back then. And I remember thinking at the time "wow, with this kind of thing in the world, I'm 100% certain we humans, as species, are going to go through a mutation on a macro level. There is no way that such a thing wouldn't influence us as a species. We're one step ahead a sort of super human kind of people, having such a fast access to information, through technology. Fast forward 20 years and what I see is kids who don't know how to write properly and who would not care to research a false story or advertisement even if it takes only two minutes to do it. Or people who don't have the attention span to listen or read something that takes more than 5 minutes, let alone read an entire book. I see people becoming more stupid, not more smart, through technology. My 20 years younger self would be so shocked.
Well a conversation at a distance over more than 10 or so light seconds would be no good. Mars for example would be impossible to have live conversations with because it takes many light minutes for a signal to go just one way.
I thought it was clever- I think he’s using examples like the moon and mars because that’s still pretty far in the future, then grounding them with somewhere like Tahiti to make them realise how close we actually are to this technology leap
That was one of the best overall descriptions of the future we are currently looking at that I have seen, heard, or read. Obviously, there are more things to think about, etc. But, as an overview in thirty minutes, this video hits all the buttons. Great job describing and translating the possibilities of our future world, Vivek!
Downvote (despite getting most everything else correct) because of a complete failure to understand the essence of a Universal Basic Income. Instituting a basic income guarantee does NOT mean that people will now have no meaning in life and will riot because they don't have to spend all day flipping burgers. They will still be able to have jobs, it is just that the jobs will be largely decoupled from the majority of their income. It is sad that someone who is putatively looking at the future should be 'this' blind to one of the most critically important elements necessary for our futures to NOT turn into dystopias.
The things he is talking about sound all very reachable but he forgets something very important. Once these things are invented/engineered and tested (which takes several years) the biggest challenge is to put them to mass-production so that they really happen in our lives. Mass-produce something new top-of-the-edge technology usually takes 10-20 years especially those specific things he is talking about because they are relatively hard to produce
Find your purpose in life, by exercising, meditating, going to church, arguing about politics, studying philosophy. There's plenty of things you can do to find purpose.
C6DRIVES not everybody is the same man ... believe i have gone to the church and is a quiet place so you can meditate ... but please don't do that joke ... some people might find Church as a moral base for them
@@serialdrunkdriver Religion is abused and used... but there is truth to it... The Human Genome Project and the Bible "stories" go hand in hand. Ashkenazi Jews holding up Israel are Neanderthal lineage bro, a carnal desire to conquer and divide.
There was a cartoon I saw a while back that summed up the overly automated future we seem to be heading towards. It was a manager of a car manufacturing plant talking to one of the production line workers, in the background new robots were building cars. The manager says to the production line worker "Look how great those machines are at building cars, I'd be worried they'll take your job" And the production line worker said to the manager. "If I were you I'd be even more worried, Robots dont buy cars"
The solution to disappearing jobs is really quite simple, a basic income guarantee. We start it soon and start it small, while the job losses are also small. As the program matures and the economy adjusts, it likely can be grown. In the short term it would be an income supplement to go along with whatever work one could get. In the long term when there are very few jobs left, the program would be able to pay much more. A basic income guarantee could be provided with no increase in government spending, by replacing most existing transfer income programs and using the money previously used on them on the BIG instead. A basic income guarantee goes to everyone, rich and poor alike, and is progressively taxed back from anyone above the poverty line, so those wealthy enough don't actually gain anything from it. It is this last that makes it actually affordable. The main benefit is that people do not lose the BIG if they get a job, unlike current welfare benefits which literally pay people to not work. You take all the money currently allocated to welfare, unemployment insurance, social security, etc., all the transfer income programs in the country, including the money that supports their bureaucracies, you pool it. You divide the pool equally among every citizen of the country. You change the tax system to tax it back from those who are making enough to not need it. The taxed back portion goes back into the pool. This last is critically important and what makes the idea actually work. The large majority do not need it, and most of the rest would pay some of it back because the taxed back portion would be progressive. There is no 'net' increase in taxes. The numbers work out if done this way that a basic income guarantee in the US would work out to something around $800. a month. Existing money only, no new taxes except for taxing back the benefit from those who earn enough normally to not need it. Poorer societies would simply have a poorer basic income, until their economies grow. However it would work equally well for poorer countries, as usually the cost of living is also lower. Meanwhile, a basic income guarantee is a massive stimulus to an economy, not because of new money in the hands of the people (there is NO 'new' money), but simply because there would no longer be a disincentive to either work or be entrepreneurial for those who are currently paid to not work with the existing welfare system.
Moore's law doesn't go on forever though. There's a minimum size a transistor can get before the electrons move freely and it becomes impossible to stop that flow. Also, the closer we get to that point the cost will become prohibitive to production.
It's pretty simple, these new technologies (like all new technologies) favor one class of people over another. AI and the increasing ability of computers to accomplish miraculous things will allow silicon valley engineers to live incredible lives, while people in the Bible belt might get to enjoy new videogame experiences in their trailer homes, if they aren't already high on opiates.
America is a way too rural country, certainly not like that in europe, except the really really huge north ones like sweden. America is too big geographically, European countries are smaller wit less space and most people here live in apartments and more community oriented. easier to travel and move around. More dense. In USA it is very easy to segregate yourselves, with the personal car dependency, highways, parking lots,one story houses and huge segregation between rich and poor areas,big open spaces.and gentrification of cities allowing only a certain class of people have access economically to an area, which europe cities donot really suffer from, its a big mix in europe cities economical backgrounds, much more community oriented and social. In europe it is much harder to avoid contact with others, I see immigrants Much more socialised and integrated in europe compared to america becuz of these reasons.
Yes, those technologies will help everyone to varying degrees. However, it will lock in the classes permanently, never alleviating the high inequality we currently see, likely leading to civil unrest.
bigcat56308 i have a wealthy brother and his theory is the republican party is great for most of the population. "The rich get their money, the poor get their god, everyones happy, drink the koolaid". He spent 3 weeks in the swiss alps and still didn't exhaust his tax cut under Bush. He's laughing heartiky at tge trump tax cut and says, see, told you!
The only thing depressing about not having a job is not having any money to buy and do all the fun shit you want to do with all the glorious freedom and time you have on your hands.
:) You spend some time watching Mahabarat . i like you. Some of these so called learned men these days are reading books that can convince them to eat shit and die buh, for you , May you have a long life .
I would like to see Vivek Wadhwa have a conversation with the authors of "The Dictator's Handbook" ...I really hope Vivek's "Star Trek" vision of the future takes hold, but after reading "The Dictator's Handbook" I see any transition to that kind of future as being dependent on some pretty radical reforms in the world's power structures. I think avoiding a "Mad Max" future is going to take much more than hope.
A tip from unemployed person: study and rethink your life's priorities. What do you want to learn and what kind of skills do you want to develop? We all have problems now and we will have problems in future. We can always look in the past and say, that we survived and learned, because we are here right now...alive and kicking. Every problem gives a possibility to progress. Unemployment is part of our cultural evolution and it gives us a chance to find solutions.
a big misconception is that everyone wants the problems of the world to be solved - poverty, sickness, etc. But the problems serve a tactical function and will never be allowed to solved.
Regarding self-driving cars and the loss of autonomy. The autonomy of driving to your destination by car has only been around for 100 years. In 1900 virtually no one on earth drove a car to his/her destination. Throughout the vast majority of human existence on earth, man walked to his destination. I don't see the self-driving car as a serious diminution of human freedom. Instead, many people, i.e.,the blind and the handicapped, will have more freedom if self-driving cars come into existence.
Talking about energy, I was disappointed that Vivek didn’t mention nuclear fusion. Solar will get cheaper and far more common, but inevitable nuclear fusion will still provide far more energy (density) and provide it 24 hours a day. Nuclear fusion will provide the necessary energy density for technology that we haven’t imagined today. It’ll especially be necessary when we’re farther from the sun during space travel, etc.
15:02 - 15:16 Rai Kurzweill has been saying the singularity will happen by 2029 for at least 20 years. Experts have been getting closer and closer to his predictions every year - maybe now people will realize he is right...
The employment problem will be huge. What happens when all these jobs disappear and all these people can’t support their families? It’s a very concerning problem.
Sonny Daniels its operates on the foundation that resources are owned and that one owner should trade with another. however, an economy is not solely built on resources. thus, why are you so concerned with resources? owning information and capital is more valuable than owning resources.
This video changed my life. This video should reach every single human being on the planet. At the same time if the wealthy are not careful with growing income inequality there will be a great revolt and power will return to the common man Man... I wish I was living this future
ok so just make sure everyone agrees we want a start treck universe, we can reference movies and tv shows from the old days to guide us on the right path, and the scary part of movies and tv shows is that they can depict possible futures, its almost like the people who made these movies got a telepathic message from possible futures warning us. so now we have a collection of possible futures we can reference from and decide "do we want to go this route? or that route?" if StarTrek is the best possible future we can strive for then we should focus on following that franchise. if humans develop superpowers somehow we can use superhero franchises on how to deal with that, marvel civil wars could tell us how the government might deal with metahumans.
He hit the nail on the head at the end about our next purpose, getting to Mars and beyond! There is still so much left to do after the current jobs are taken over, and I wouldn't mind going into the service industry. Maybe own my own B&B for humans, on Earth or Mars or the Moon 😂
26:52, a majority of the world are stuck in jobs they don't like... That is why the replacement of humans in primary and secondary industries is a good thing if handled properly, if done correctly, we could have a world where humans apply themselves to whatever interest them as opposed to what gives a pay check.
If iPhones continue their exponential growth, by the year 2027 they'll hold 7 micro-universes, 5 tetrillion songs (shuffle only), and be the size of a regulation basketball court.
Aaron Heaney No software update required, thanks to "iSiriAI X" which contains all possible software updates past and future for all possible versions or iSiri, iPhone, iOS, iApple, iMac, and iAI. However, this means they will also contain all possible bugs.
AmazingArends: the joke is that while electronics get smaller all the time, phones, on the other hand, keep getting bigger. Mostly because we demand bigger screens.
People are like schools we don't need universities and people telling us how low or high are intelligences I look forward to the person that has been alone and hasn't known anything for a long time how exciting to educate them and love them and show them and I'm sure they have something to show me
I am optimistic. Future will be great if done properly. In the time of plentiful, people don't have to fight for the necessities or food. I am home and I don't have enough time for things I want to do. I do agree that many people may find it daunting as they lose the job who may lose the purpose in life, but it does not have to be that way. There are plenty of things you can do, like exercise, meditation, yoga, volunteering, help others, be creative and make something, study, read, play games, become more religious, become philosopher, write books, travel; anything that keeps you busy, cheerful and happy. Meditation itself can take more than one lifetime to accomplish the task of nirvana. I do agree that it has to be done properly by political leaders or it could be a complete disaster. Greed could be the biggest enemy of the future even in the time of plentiful.
A MAN LIKE THIS IS THE TYPE OF PEOPLE THAT SHOULD BE RUNNING COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. MAYBE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD COULD FIND PEACE AND SAVE OURSELVES AND THE EARTH.
A thriving Capitalist civilisation is a primitive civilisation. Remember, in Star Trek they have more of a socialist civilisation. People don't want to be "earning their keep" what utter bullsh##, UBI would work just fine, people need food, shelter, dignity and satisfaction of life and that doesn't depend on people being forced to work just to live, no one wants that, people need the freedom to earn meaning not money, to create a life not simply survive. Joblessness is unfortunately considered a bad thing in this world, where once upon a time people didn't exist like that, people did things, they had "what they did" which was whatever they felt was meaningful and needed at the time. nowadays the massive majority of people are servants to the desires of the few, they/we are capitalised on. The reality is, that in the Utopian future, we will not work for other people out of need of money, but out of desire to support each other for whatever reasons motivate us, what we find to be a cause worthy of our support. We will be our own bosses when it comes down to what job we do. when we apply for a position, our skills and our "who we are" will be considered, not whether or not they can afford to hire us, or not. That's because we won't be paid for doing the work, the success of the work is its own satisfaction, and with it the pride and prestige to match. We will not be "Jobless" just employerless. there will still be social ranks/hierarchy, but less will it have anything to do with Income, because that won't matter then. I feel it'll be more to do with "personal glory" in its purest form. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, but it could be if "glory" is earnt for the right reasons.
A thriving Capitalist civilisation is a primitive civilisation, because it based on slavery by money. We need a job because the companies want our money and they've forbidden to be selfsufficient and to be none of their slaves anymore
Things to do when you don't have to worry about earning money: song writing, playing music, RU-vid videos (massive category alone), sports, travelling all over, learning history, politics, games like chess/go, video games, exercise, mountain climbing, inventing/making games, investments, sculpture, painting, fishing, hunting. There are so many things, is this really a worry? I'd worry more about supplying things to people who have no jobs when money is needed/ universal basic income.
Yes the poor will destroy the rich, once they have nothing to look forward to. My parents are from Cambodia and Vietnam. The wars there basically have to do with the poor/have nots taking over the rich (middle, upper class and even the lower class who doesn't join in their revolution). They take over. And you can't blame them, they felt they had nothing. It has happened in reality not just in science fiction horror books or films.
We are nearly 8 000 000 000 people today + 1 000 000 000 every decade. Trashing oceans, rainforest, wildlife etc...do you really think that self driving cars and sensors can save the wildlife ?
Yes. You have no idea how fast China is regreening entire deserts. And how impactful vertical farming and deep sea fish farming will become. So no worries. If we can colonise the moon and Mars, we can handle helping Earth back to a healthier state.
+Marco Polo i live in Brasil in Amazonia ...here they are destroying the rainforest every day at an even fastest speed than ever. it is impossible to regreen the forest destroyed (too many différents species )
neyab wisdom the life on this planet has got to the state when there can be only one dominant speeces which colonized entire planet. We have reached critical numbers already. The balance means we simply cant save both, so more we grow more species have to extinct. Its terrible in some way, but its needed for our survival.
This guy needs some Larry David advice: curb your enthusiasm. By the way, people on Earth conferencing with people on Mars will never happen regardless of computing power unless you break the laws of physics: speed of light. Transistors are close to hit the atom thickness for isolation barrier which allowed them to be more dense (I think currently they are around 8 atoms thikness), so with Transistors your Moore's law will no longer deliver, maybe with you excitement you can revolutionize Quantum computing but I doubt it since you don't even factor the speed of light when talking about conferencing with "Neomartians". IBM super computer was called Deep Blue and not Big blue.
We will find new computing technologys that will be faster eventually and quantum physics may make a practially latency free Internet possible in the future.
I disagree about basic income outlook. When money is the reason you deal with stress. All of a sudden you are no longer bound by a routine that prevents and limit meaningful interactions with each other. His perspective of “meaning” is from a viewpoint who has had the chance to make a major impact on his immediate surrounding. When a person is provided with more time to contemplate instead on auto tuning daily routines that persons self awareness is expanded. It is our personal responsibility to help each other reconstruct our axioms.
One. One generation is all it will take to transition from having universal basic income and being depressed because you don't have a "job" to universal income, doing exactly what you want, still contributing to society as you want, studying what you want, volunteering where you want, and finally; saying it must have sucked to be around a few decades ago when you had to do a job just to get money.
The only way to keep the Moore’s low when it converges is keep making smaller transistors all the time or increase the quality of the materials make multidimensional cpus with floors of transistors and make them as small as possible
And yet people seem to be way unhealthier than before... At least in my surroundings. See my great-grandfather died in 1984 aged 97 and I remember him saying he never went to a doctor or took medication (not even aspirin) in his entire life. And so far none of his offspring got to his age by a long shot. Despite all these supposed advances in medicine. Granted each organism is different so perhaps he had really strong genes, but my bet is nothing beats good diet & daily exercise (he used to walk a couple of kms everyday to work his little garden.)
My grandfather lived into his 90's also.My grandparents were raised in an era with NO CHEMICAL GARDEN PRODUCTS. The soil was healthy plants were nutritious.
This is because all that tech we have make us less mobile. We rather stay behind our computer then work out (i'm talking about the average person). We allow ourselfs to be slaves to our mobile phones and we ratter eat food that is made quickly and out of packages instead of growing our own food. We being blast with tons of fastfood commercials that plants a seed into our subconcious mind that when we drive by a mcdonalds, we stop when we feel our stomach growl.
The one issue that is beyond the scope of this projection is that of population growth, this has to be addressed. I recognise that some optimisation of how resources, food production etc can be anticipated. To all who would say that the Earth can accommodate, I would say then give me a global figure at which it can not and tell me how you propose to stop us reaching that number
The "Dark Side" section at the end is great! because you said: "yes there will be new jobs, but THOSE people who drive trucks now, wont get them, cause they dont have the qualities, the education for the new jobs" so basically a young country which has a young tech savvy youth like india will get the jobs. The youg people in Singapore will get the new jobs, not the old Wallstreet brokers, not the 50y old workers in Europe.
The virtual reality concept is already reality. A company called WorldViz (with backing from Intel) offers a VR package that allows companies to interact with each other in virtual worlds. I tested their equipment - very impressive!
Because Deep Blue is what we dummies know it as, but all the elite indian intellectuals are in on the internally coined name "Big Blue!" it's an injoke for them of sorts. Trust me.
The other thing most people don't know is that water has the ability to have memory, DNA information in water can be transmitted digitally and copied the same DNA in a plain water in another country.
Norman1951 Norman We're going to have to decouple our ideas of labour and wealth. If there is enough food to feed everybody should anyone go hungry? If there is shelter for everybody should anyone be homeless? If we can care for every sick person should anyone lack for treatment? We are rapidly approaching an age of unimaginable abundance and our traditional ways of thinking about resources and allocation will need radical reform.
Marco The world is full of evil people willing to exploit the system. It's still very possible to work for yourself and make a good living while doing so. My good friend works as a linesman in Texas. He makes 6 figures a year with only a couple years tradeschool and an additional 5 years experience. He works his ass off but he's been able to provide a good life for himself and his family all while working for himself. People who work 9 to 5 retail jobs even have the ability to make more money. For ex: my old manager took advantage of the employee stock exchange program and the company matching 401k contributions. He's been with the company for 25 years and is now worth over 1mil. Did he have to take advantage of this? No, but he's wicked smart and saw an opportunity to make money. When people fail, they talk like you do. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and find a way. Nobody said life was easy.
Mr. Neon, look at the trends. Standard of living is dropping. Good Jobs are being replaced with bad jobs. You are pointing out some exceptions that you have come across. But across the general population, there is simply less good work to go around. there are fewer Winners but a lot more Losers. the real problem is with the System that is constricting opportunity, but you are blaming the workers for getting screwed. Whose side are you on?
Scott Weiss Survival is made of exceptions. Our prosperity has allowed bad genetics to be passed down and flourish. We are overrun with people who's very existance can be attributed to survival standards being lowered. I'm not sure what the solution is, to be honest. As far as I can tell, as genetic editing technologies become more prevelant, humans will split into two different sub-species: One that has been genetically edited to such a point where they are superior in every way possible, and another pushed further into being a slave race. Robotics and A.I. will advance in this time, eventually leaving no need for a genetically inferior slave race. What then? Nobody has any clue what world governing system would work in such a drastically different world. For the time being, or at least for the next 100+ years, I am confident Capitalism is still the best system for prosperity.
Yes, it may be indelicate to talk about it, but the World's Population can't just keep growing exponentially. Eventually, there will have to be Selection. But Capitalism has no future. As you say, Capitalism will soon no longer need people even as slaves. And Capitalism which is based on models for exponential growth (both Profit and Interest are exponential, no linear or incremental, constructs) is mathematically unsustainable. the World is a System and the Capitalist System has hit its saturation point and is progressing well into the realm of Diminishing Returns. But Capitalism, for lack of any coherent alternative that could wrestle control away from the Capitalist Ruling Class, will indeed continue, but they will not be Genetically Superior. they wouldn't need to be. They are Rich. and the Ruling Class would not genetically design for increased intelligence, because Increased Intelligence leads to Political Subversion (for example, all the best Colleges are churning out Liberals, Democrats, and people who question Capitalism). the Capitalist Elite will do in their remaining future what they are doing now -- they will encourage a mindless and unreflective 'Fat Dumb and Happy' attitude for themselves, along with a militant stance against any remaining classes that they see as competition.
I have to disagree with people not having jobs are going to go crazy. Tons of people retire every year and don't have jobs anymore, they do it just fine. Now not having a job or something to fill your day up might be a little boring at times, but I highly doubt it would be a big problem, as long as you have food, shelter, and heat.
it's not going to happen that fast (20-30 years), the technologies will be invented in this time-frame, sure. but implementing them on a global scale will take much, much longer.
I think you have no idea what Exponential Growth of Technology is. It took 70 years between a Television and a Computer, But only 35 years between a Computer and a Laptop, Only 15 years between Laptop and I-Phones. What dos this mean ? The next transition of Computers better than I-Phones will happen in the next 5 years, Probably even earlier, I suspects its something like a Wrist Watch A.I Computer or perhaps an A.I Computer built in one's Sunglasses !!!
Most honest talk i have heard on youtube.There is some form of prophesy in movies and i am a witness to this.Lots of the gadgets in movies like star wars,star trek,back to the future to mention a few,are in our hands today.I love to monitoring tech, future tech and the speed at which technology is changing.Everything within human experience is based on yin and yang.Everything we may see as beneficial has its negative attribute.
