Microsoft founder and self-styled “everything expert” Bill Gates says a book from 2023, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma, should be read by everyone.
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PRESSURE TO MIND-MERGE WITH AI GROWING
The field of Psychology is busy identifying new personality types based on propensity to accept merging with AI or not.
TRUMP TO CHANGE THE CLIMATE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Energy realism will make a comeback starting this week. It’s in the cards of President Donald Trump’s second go-around as President, and even California senses the jig is up.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ARE PETS IN PLACE OF KIDS AND AI LOVERS A PART OF THAT AGE OF ABUNDANCE?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.