What if everybody could live a wealthy, healthy, job-less and creative life in a post-scarcity Universe? Are we currently on a trajectory to this new reality and what are the obstacles we may face on the way? What are the important game-changing technologies?
TODO: create and agenda (very tentative):
1) contrast current life circumstances with a potential future
2) identify the key problems that we could solve with technology
3) review the players in society that will take part in this change
3) contrast views on the opportunities and threats of these technologies
4) ...
Our future life conditions here on Earth might soon be impacted by game-changing advancements in artifical intelligence, robotics, manufacturing and genetics; at least if you ask people like Elon Mush, Andrew Ng and Ray Kurzweil. What are the most important technologies and what is the impact they might have? What are the dangers? Opinions differ so the intention here is to review and contrast what leading fiction writers, scientists, visionaries and entrepreneurs think about the question: how will AI, robots, and advanced manufacturing impact everybody's life circumstances here on Earth?
Fiction to be reviewed
Post-scarcity:
- The Culture series
AI:
- Asimov
The Human-Computer Cortex:
- That Swedish guy who wrote sci-fi computer implants in the 70's
Non-fiction to be reviewed
AI:
- Douglas Hofstadter: GEB
Videos to be reviewed
AI:
The Human-Computer Cortex:
News articles to be reviewed
AI:
- https://aifuture2016.stanford.edu/
- http://fortune.com/2016/06/15/future-of-work-2/
- http://www.businessinsider.com/researchers-predictions-future-artificial-intelligence-2015-10?r=US&IR=T&IR=T
3D printing:
- https://hbr.org/2013/03/3-d-printing-will-change-the-world