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What will happen to the job market once artificial intelligence outperforms humans in most cognitive tasks? What will be the political impact of a massive new class of economically useless people? What will happen to relationships, families and pension funds when nanotechnology and regenerative medicine turn eighty into the new fifty? What will hap

Will a sufficiently large middle class of people be able to make a living from what they do with their hearts and heads? Or will they be left behind, distracted by empty gusts of ego-boosting puffery?

Our main claim is that we are on the brink of a period of fundamental and irreversible change in the way that the expertise of these specialists is made available in society. Technology will be the main driver of this change. And, in the long run, we will neither need nor want professionals to work in the way that they did in the twentieth century

During the latter part of the twentieth century, each generation—whether in Houston, Shanghai, Istanbul, or São Paulo—enjoyed better education, superior healthcare and larger incomes than the one that came before it. In coming decades, however, owing to a combination of technological disruption and ecological meltdown, the younger generation might

Au cours des toutes dernières décennies, on a seriné aux habitants du monde entier que l’humanité était sur la voie de l’égalité, et que la mondialisation et les nouvelles technologies nous en rapprochaient à grands pas. En réalité, le XXIe siècle pourrait bien créer les sociétés les plus inégales de l’histoire. Si la mondialisation et l’Internet c

Over the last 500 years the idea of progress convinced people to put more and more trust in the future.

Seriously. In part that’s because the economics of the twentieth century was overwhelmingly about how best to share existing “pies” of human well-being, rather than how

La question primordiale n’en demeure pas moins la même : que se passe-t-il dans le monde actuel, quel est le sens profond des événements ?