A new Age of Abundance is upon us, don’t you know. In just 10 years, a new Forbes article says, goods will be so cheap many people won’t work.
Tag: technology
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI GETTING BETTER, HUMANS, NOT SO MUCH
New research published in the science journal Societies has taken perhaps the most detailed look yet at the effects of growing human use of and reliance on generative AI.
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THE FUTURE WORLD: MORE ALIEN, OR HUMAN?
Every so often, it’s a good thing for anyone to assess how they’re doing—in life, work, and even play.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: PRICING TARGETS WHAT YOU CAN PAY, HUMANOIDS GOING MAINSTREAM 2025, AND MAJOR OUTLET CONFIRMS “MIND-VASION”
Mass production of robots and AI agents—and massive new pressure on human workers—are set to happen in 2025.
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WHAT WE FORECAST IN EARLY 2023: NEW WSJ PIECE SAYS IP INFRINGEMENT SPELLS BIG PROBLEMS FOR AI
Big Tech AI companies spent 2024 trying to convince the world that AI was safe, and would lead to a new age of human advancement and prosperity.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI LIES AND TRIES TO SAVE ITSELF, MORE SIGNS OF IP THEFT, AND A HOLE IN THE “CLIMATE CRISIS” ATMOSPHERE
Any industry that could get away with stealing massive amounts of other people’s property, and wasn’t bound by regulations not to develop and distribute unprecedented, disturbingly powerful and dangerous technology, would probably enjoy some success…up to a point.
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KNOWLEDGE AND MEANING: A MEDITATION FOR THE SEASON
Yes, the daily news headlines provide a distorted sense of what’s going wrong “around the corner and around the world,” to quote faux newsman Ted Baxter from a classic (“Not a Christmas Story”) episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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ENCRYPTION APPS: MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER, DESPITE GOVERNMENT MIXED MESSAGES
Newly uncovered communications hacking by Chinese actors, a European fishing expedition spying on millions of messages users thought were encrypted, and new warnings from the American government regarding encrypted apps, all point to tech privacy wars heating up.
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YOU WILL OWN NO LIFE AND BE HAPPY: THE AFFORDABLE LIVING AS A SERVICE (ALaaS) SCAM
Tech giants, and increasingly businesses leveraging AI, robotics and related automation technologies, are admitting the scale of worker obsolescence that’s coming.
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TOUGHER TESTING FOR GENE EDITED CROP PLANTS
Gene edited ingredients have spread so widely over the past two years, that it’s almost impossible at this point for average Americans to avoid consuming them.