Brainstorming the new machine age

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   jurvetson

   Aug 17, 2019 at 7:39 pm

   Here’s the Open Letter from our 2015 gathering and WSJ summary.
   and going back, I first starting questioning the role of technology in growing inequality at SIEPR in 2010 and then made my first talk on it at Google Solve for Xwhere I ask if the ironic byproduct of erasing the digital divide is a further acceleration of the rich-poor gap?

   And presented this idea to a Silicon Valley audience (debating other VCs), and by electronic voting, they agreed 70/30%. The votes
   And brainstormed solutions, like free healthcare for all at X-Prize Visioneering 2014 and Google’s i4j Summit in 2015and then contributed a chapter to a 2016 bookwith the provocative opening: "Let’s go far enough in the future where no one will debate the sweeping transition of time. There are infinite possible paths to this distant future, but we can imagine reasonable endpoints. This future will look like much of human history prior to the industrial and agricultural revolutions, where serfs and slaves did most of the labor-intensive work in the city-state economies. But while we hope the arc of the moral universe continues to bend towards justice, there will be a new paradigm in master and slave relationship between man and machine. The slaves of the future will be our machines."

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