Inclusive Prosperity.
Our open letter will be in the next Tech Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/538091/open-letter-on-the-digital-economy/
The WSJ picked it up: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/06/02/tech-gurus-say-more-needs-to-be-done-to-spread-the-wealth/
We kicked off the brainstorming with a gathering at DFJ, and it occurred to me then that many of the new jobs in the new economy (like Uber drivers and Mechanical Turkers) are at the edge of automation, and thus, are ever so ephemeral against the march of Moore’s Law.
We started with the 200-year endgame and pondered utopian and dystopian futures, long past the debates on transition times (e.g., robots can do anything physical better than a human by then). And we tried to come up with business/gov’t/social movement ideas to address the path dependence of where we are today and were we hope we can go.
We explored democratizing vectors in the near term (education, broadband, fluidity (lifelong credentialing, immigration, etc.)) and for the longer term, distribution vectors (basic wage, taxes) since, in the endgame, global democratization within an information economy will ironically further accelerate the rich-poor gap. Everyone will have access to the American Dream, writ large, but it will feel like the lottery. And, within many countries, like the U.S., the prior winners of the lottery run the lottery. This does not sound like a firm foundation for trust in the system.
Here are a series of photos of the white board during our kickoff gathering: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/16620787618
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