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The Door to the Rest of Your Life … and the Life You Will Leave to Your Kids
Adapted from Circa 2118: What Humans Will Do When Machines Take Over Intelligent machines are already reshaping occupations and careers. This new reality – a workplace where machines are employed in every job except those in which humans prefer the work of other humans – will open two troubling lines of inquiry, first among social…
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A Clear & Present Danger
Based on Circa 2118: What Humans Will Do When Machines Take Over Circa 2118, artificial intelligence and automation will create machines that are smarter and stronger than humans, making human workers unneeded and unwanted in the workplace. The resulting economic, political, cultural and individual disruption will stagger every American’s understanding of the present and batter…
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Joining Forces in Self-Defense
Adapted from Circa 2118: What Humans Will do When Machines Take Over As important as our individual preparation for AI’s disruption will be, it will fall far short of what the country will need to negotiate the next one hundred years successfully. To do that, we will have to couple those personal acts with collective…
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Shaping the Legacy We’ll Leave to Our Kids & Grandkids
In 2017, the novelist Dan Brown introduced another thriller entitled Origin. While the tale is packed with action and intrigue, it is also a provocative meditation on humankind’s age-old search for the answers to questions only humans can appreciate: • Where do we come from? and • Where are we going? At one point in…
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The Most Important Question of the AI Era
Adapted from Circa 2118: What Humans Will Do When Machines Take Over We are now living in the era of artificial intelligence, and the most important question you will face in this period is “How do you protect yourself and your family?” Here’s a start on the answer. The first and most important step each…
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Good Morning, America Circa 2118
Adapted from Circa 2118: What Humans Will Do When Machines Take Over There is no regulatory mandate or social consensus that will magically deter the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the near or longer term. It cannot be legislated into oblivion. It won’t be prevented by the sudden onset of restraint among…
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The Perfection of Work
In last week’s post, I described the outcome that could occur as intelligent machines terminate more and more employment opportunities for humans. Within the next 100 years and with very few exceptions, these byte-collar workers will take over the roles currently filled by working men and women in every profession, craft and trade. The resulting…
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The Door to the Rest of Your Life
Adapted from Circa 2118: What Humans Will Do When Machines Take Over Intelligent machines are already reshaping occupations and careers. This new reality – a workplace where machines are employed in every job except those in which humans prefer the work of other humans – will open two troubling lines of inquiry, first among social…
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The Gut Punch of Modern-Day Work
From the dawn of the Industrial Age and through the entirety of the Information Age, parents and teachers, therapists and life coaches counseled working men and women to put employment in perspective. It is not, they advised, the end-all and be-all of one’s life. It is not something that should infringe on our relationships or…
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The Great Talent Robbery
The Great Talent Robbery was the endless crime of the 20th and early 21st centuries. It was perpetrated by elementary and high school administrators and by the faculties of undergraduate and graduate programs in our colleges and universities. They convinced generations of Americans that talent is something reserved for only a precious few in the…