The Shadow of Technology
Google just posted the video of my talk from their “Solve for X” brainspa retreat. It’s a subject I had not spoken on before, and it begs more questions than answers.
What if the nature of technology leads to an accelerating rich-poor gap that is not self-rectifying?
What if technology raises the bottom of the pyramid for all, and democratizes upward mobility, yet at the same time, transforms it from a pyramid to a conical spike — where an ever shrinking percentage of the population controls an even-growing percentage of an information-economy embedded with winner-take-all network effects and power laws?
What happens to peoples who opt out of the vector of progress, as the sea change of destiny becomes the drumbeat of decades, instead of centuries. What is the nature of work in the future? And how can our culture and the very fabric of society co-evolve with our technologies during the transition?
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