I think we will get some “break throughs” in Quantum Computing that Google execs will assure us makes their company worth five trillion dollars.
I think we will get some “break throughs” in Quantum Computing that Google execs will assure us makes their company worth five trillion dollars.
Cheap wearables derived from fitbits and smart watches that corporations can justify forcing everyone in any physical job to wear all day. Cheap enough for multiple “bracelets”, each with 3-axis accelerometers, RFID, the usual etc. But costing like under $20 each. Allow the full Amazonification of every job and humans to be pushed to their absolute physical limit.
Like your boss calls you in to tell you that your under utilizing your right arm by 21% in your grocery stocking job. Taylorism going to it’s most obsessive level combined with a shit economy so it’s hard to just go elsewhere.
Meanwhile the devices are just mapping human body movements, positioning, etc with a plan to transfer the data of millions of broken and discarded workers to some kind of robot, each tailored to the job and physical space.
Of course this would require some very cheap chips and well, lol.
If you really want to see who turned on the lathe:
This Marshall Brain guy guy has some weird politics but his post 9/11 Manna story is seriously prophetic (just ignore the cringe characters). I read it long before I was interested in truly radical left politics, a long time ago. As a Silicon valley insider that didn’t get his bag and retreated to university work he seems to have had real insight.
His solution was weird though, since he’s politically incoherent but seems class conscious. “what if we just do Gult’s Gulch but it’s techno libertarian socialist and we just eventually supplant the decaying capitalist states while they are genociding the working class.”