Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future 3 pdf

... haveasweanticipaterecovery from the current cri- sis and in the years and decades ahead? What will the economy of the future looklike? Among people who work in the field of computer technology, itisfairlyroutinetospeculateabout the like- lihoodthatcomputerswillsomedayapproach,orpossibly evenexceed,humanbeingsingeneralcapability and intel- ligen...

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... are growingdark.Nowweseethatmany of the verybrightest lightsin the tunnelfinallyfeel the impact and alsobeginto losetheirlight. The owners of the businessesin the tunnel areseeingmuch of theirwealthgraduallydrainaway. The ... mayhaveactuallyin- creasedforatime,astheywereabletolowertheirprices. Asaresult,theirprofits, and therefore the wealth of th...

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... of Workers Percentage of Workers Retailsalespersons 4 ,37 4, 230  3. 3%  Cashiers 3, 479 ,39 0  2.6%  Officeclerks 3, 026,710  2 .3%  Combinedfoodpreparation and serv- ingworkers,includingfastfood 2,461,890  1.9%  Registerednurses ... the glassesisopen and the other closed. And, of course, the glassescouldberotatedinanydirection. And perhapst...

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... food—all of these and countless thousands of otherstructures and chemicalsthatcomprise ourbodies and make usfunctionareproteins. And they areallconstructedthroughnanotechnology. Itislikelythat the coming“nanotech”revolutionwill begin ... collating and faxing in- formation. The intellectualportion of the job—eitherap- provingordenying the loan—isprobably...

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... Amazon takeaper-capitaincomethatissomewhatcomparableto that of developed nations and then multiply it by some hugefraction of the Chinesepopulation.In otherwords, theyassume that a very significant percentage of the 1 .3 billion ... effortlessly acrossborders, and (3)  The fall of Soviet-stylecommun- ism and the adoption of market-based economies...

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... to decline.Rememberthatwearetalkinghereaboutaverage workers.Toget the graphabove,youmighttake the dis- tribution of incomesin the UnitedStates and thenelimi- nateboth the richest and the poorestpeople.Thengraph the averageincome of the remaining“typical”people (the bulk of consumers) ... to lookinalittlemoredepthatsome of the mostwidelyheld conventi...

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... elimi- nates the jobsthatprovideincometoconsumers. The es- sentialideaisthatweshouldimposesomecombination of aconsumptiontax and/ oraspecialdirecttaxonbusiness thatcaptures the incomewhich,inanon-automatedecon- omy,wouldbepaidoutinwages.Overtime,as the wages paidtoaverageworkersdecrease(asapercentage of reve- nue),thesetaxeswouldbegraduallyi...

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... dramatically negative.In the UnitedStates,twothirds of workers and thereforeconsumers—donothaveacollegedegree.While effortstoimproveeducation and trainingarelaudable, the realityisthatthisisnotlikelytooffset the impact of geo- metrically accelerating technology. Infact,Ithinkthat the THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL / 230 ... have strongeducations and training....

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... acentrallyplanned economy,  and perhaps most chillingly, the overthrow of govern- ments and a“dictatorship of the proletariat.”In the wake of the collapse of communism, these ideas ... Amazon  49 Blinder,AlanS.,“IsGovernmenttooPolitical?”ForeignAffairs,No- vember/December1997.Web: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19971101faessay3815/alan-s- blinder/is-governm...

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... has quicklyattracted the notice of the Securities and Exchange Commission and mayresultinnewregulation. Astheseexamplesshow,wecanexpectthat the rate of change and the volatility of nearlyeverythingaroundus will ... of Workers Percentage of Workers Retailsalespersons 4 ,37 4, 230  3. 3%  Cashiers 3, 479 ,39 0  2.6%  Officeclerks 3, 026,710  2 .3%...

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