Posted On: 12/27/2016 9:01:30 PM
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As the new year is upon us, we love our predictions!
If politicians excel at anything, it’s being awful at the prediction business.
We have no clue what new industry will emerge a decade from now. The more we innovate, though, the more it seems we need human creativity and ingenuity — at least until the post-scarcity world of singularity.
Certainly, there’s no guarantee our skills will remain viable in perpetuity; not in a world where an advance can decimate entire industries in a few years.
In the real world, we get this. Yet, in the political world, we continue to vote for a bunch of Republicans who believe America greatness is contingent on reinstating an antiquated factory-based economy. "I will reopen the coal mines!" or "We'll make it hell for companies to move out of the USA!"
If politicians excel at anything, it’s being awful at the prediction business.
We have no clue what new industry will emerge a decade from now. The more we innovate, though, the more it seems we need human creativity and ingenuity — at least until the post-scarcity world of singularity.
Certainly, there’s no guarantee our skills will remain viable in perpetuity; not in a world where an advance can decimate entire industries in a few years.
In the real world, we get this. Yet, in the political world, we continue to vote for a bunch of Republicans who believe America greatness is contingent on reinstating an antiquated factory-based economy. "I will reopen the coal mines!" or "We'll make it hell for companies to move out of the USA!"
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