Will the future be filled with cool
technologies and endless opportunities or will our own creations lead to
eventual doom? Martin Ford tends to think the former. Technology has seemingly
endless ability to improve the health, freedom, and happiness of our lives.
Even optimistic futurists like Ray Kurzweil and James Canton admit, however, that the road to advancing technology is
fraught with dangers. Super viruses, artificial intelligences run amok,
environmental calamity – science has its threats as well as its promises. Yet
there could be one near term problem that even futurists tend to ignore –
economic collapse. Martin Ford, a silicon valley computer engineer,
entrepreneur, and blogger has written The Lights In The Tunnel, a book which explores the economic implications of a world
which is becoming increasingly automated. See more at : http://singularityhub.com/2009/12/15/martin-ford-asks-will-automation-lead-to-economic-collapse/
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