What's the Future?

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Transcript of What's the Future?

“…47 percent of jobs are “at risk” of being automated in the next 20 years.”

Carl Frey and Michael Osborne, Oxford University“The Future of Employment: How Susceptible

Are Jobs to Computerisation?”  

The weavers of Ned Ludd’s rebellion couldn’t imagine…

The future of health care is out for delivery.

“ God did not make being an auto worker a good job!”

—David Rolf, SEIU

“The New Deal’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation helped light up America — moving it from 10 percent of homes having electricity in 1930 to more than 60 percent a decade later. [We] utterly transform[ed] the economy in about five years, by using idle capital.”

–Louis HymanBorrow: The American Way

of Debt

Are we done yet?

“ Technology is the solution to human problems. We won’t run out of work till we run out of problems.”

–Nick Hanauer

AI will help us tailor treatment to each individual.

The White House Brain Initiative: Could AI help us build “cognitive prosthetics”?

Climate change is for our generation what World War II was for our parents and grandparents.

“It takes a machine to get inside the OODA loop of another machine.”

ObserveOrientDecideAct A DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge team

But we do have a responsibility to get the transformation right!

“The great question of the 21st century will be “Whose black box do we trust?”

—John Mattison