AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Generally, the future labor-market winners will be those with higher skills that machines cannot displace, or with the skills to work alongside the new intelligent machines, such as the tech skills to program the new machines. The losers will be the workers whose tasks are more easily replaced by robots and artificial intelligence. In the past fort
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
I see two divergent media futures emerging—each based on networks that serve very different groups.
In the first future, our networks serve the technologists who build them, the advertisers that pay for them, and the governments that control them. These networks compete for users in a war for attention by making systems that spit out superficially ... See more
In the first future, our networks serve the technologists who build them, the advertisers that pay for them, and the governments that control them. These networks compete for users in a war for attention by making systems that spit out superficially ... See more
Chris Best • The Two Futures of Media
In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
In an AI-dominated future, the structure of the American economy is poised for a seismic shift. As AI slashes coordination and transaction costs, the Coase Theorem suggests a fascinating outcome: an economy teeming with smaller, more agile firms. This reduction in costs disrupts the very essence of firm size, allowing nimble players to enter the fr... See more