While job displacement from accelerating automation may be our most urgent problem, we have many others. The purpose of this thought experiment is to consider what kind of integrated solution might address the majority of these at once. Regarding the threat of worker displacement and social unrest posed by accelerating automation, I submit that in […]
While I’d prefer that a Celebrationist experiment be tried because of pure enthusiasm, that’s rarely enough for groups of people to create great change. Great societal change seems to come on the heels of perceived necessity. Accelerating automation will soon provide this perception for people pretty much everywhere, and that’s the reason I expect a […]
Many think that recruiting people to a vision or cause is a sales process. It isn’t. In this blog, I’ll distinguish sales from something that looks similar but yields different results. That something is enrollment. At least two organizations I am familiar with have used enrollment to attract over ½ million people to their programs. […]
The techno-utopians do a great job of showing the potential of technology to solve huge problems and give us a better world. I generally see this potential the same way they do. My fundamental difference with them is a particular kind of skepticism. Just because things could work out well doesn’t mean they must work out well. For […]
