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The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.

“an industrial revolution of unmitigated cruelty” powered by machines capable of “reducing the economic value of the routine factory employee to a point at which he is not worth hiring at any price.”**

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Polarization and Part-Time Jobs

Technology is supposed to increase our mastery over nature and reduce the role of chance in our lives;

among the Silicon Valley set by Peter Thiel, our wants tend to be borrowed from other people.

Watson, Deep Blue, and ever-better machine learning algorithms are cool. But the most valuable companies in the future won’t ask what problems can be solved with computers alone. Instead, they’ll ask: how can computers help humans solve hard problems?

the impact that accelerating progress has on the job market and the overall economy is poised to defy much of the conventional wisdom about how technology and economics intertwine.

I think that commercial fleets could be one of the first places where we see widespread adoption of automated vehicles.