Technologies that will shape our future are already in play around us, and they will soon wreak havoc on our reality.
Iason Athanasiadis considers the emerging threat to reality and definition of humanity posed by the unprecedented transition to automation. Athanasiadis delves into five transformative innovations: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Blockchain (BC), and Universal Basic Income (UBI), to reflect on how things are changing and what those changes might mean for the future of humanity and reality.
Jobs are disappearing, incomes retreating, the precariat growing. Thousands of people risk their lives in stormy seas to flee wars, moribund economies and climate change on a daily basis. Traditional politicians continue to avoid publicly addressing the tsunami of unemployment, apparently baffled as to how to react to a historic transition: the automation of critical masses of labour once performed by humans.
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