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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
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
In the new millennium, economic and political life will no longer be organized on a gigantic scale under the domination of the nation-state as it was during the modern centuries. The civilization that brought you world war, the assembly line, social security, income tax, deodorant, and the toaster oven is dying. Deodorant and the toaster oven may s
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Australia is a house of cards. We are confident the bubble will burst and that it will be spectacular, but we do not know what will provide the spark. This brings us back to our fingers of instability metaphor we introduced in Chapter 2: We know it takes only one grain of sand to trigger the avalanche; we just don’t know which one.
Jonathan Tepper • Endgame: The End of the Debt SuperCycle and How It Changes Everything
Geopolitics
Jonno Evans and • 5 cards
The problem is the relationship of the federal government to itself.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firml
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
The most important question is whether Americans are prepared for the trauma that will accompany the collapse of one regime and the emergence of another.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
we might end up with an algorithmic upper class owning most of our planet.