Futurist Jim Carroll"Fictional utopias are usually just that!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
We are living in the era of grand, sweeping tech utopian visions promoted by the technology titans of our time.
Yesterday, this post by Marc Andreessen - that AI would eventually lead to some sort of future nirvana where work becomes easy and where everything costs almost nothing - drew both ridicule and scorn online.
It reminds me of a post from Popular Mechanix magazine in the 1930s - we would all be working one or two hours a week because machines would be doing all the work. Right.
The thing is, these folks are on a bit of a utopian roll - there are dozens if not hundreds of grand predictions. A few months prior, Larry Ellison of Oracle suggested that AI monitoring would lead us to some type of perfect society, because, well, in the face of constant camera monitoring technology, we would all behave.
I think there was a book about that. Oh, ya,
1984 by George Orwell.
The latest, of course, involves the madman-du-jour Elon Musk, who suggests that tossing a massively complex technology known as blockchain at a massively complex challenge will prove to be a simple solution.
Right. Got that.
It's going to be a very tiresome number of years.
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