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L'Atelier • Economic opportunities for our avatars | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | L'Atelier
In the twenty-first century, however, data will eclipse both land and machinery as the most important asset, and politics will be a struggle to control the flow of data. If data becomes concentrated in too few hands, humankind will split into different species. The race to obtain the data is already on, headed by data giants such as Google, Faceboo
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Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
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Note by Gurwinder on Substack
Massive copying is here to stay. Massive tracking and total surveillance is here to stay. Ownership is shifting away. Virtual reality is becoming real. We can’t stop artificial intelligences and robots from improving, creating new businesses, and taking our current jobs.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
James Dale Davidson • The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
Back in 1989, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama already noted that we had arrived in an era where life has been reduced to “economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.”
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Among the forces poised to shape the future, information technology stands alone in terms of its exponential progress.