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It's been interesting so far to see almost every prediction about the future meet unforeseen obstacles. "We'll have flying cars!" (Need runways, air traffic co
by HenryKissinger 6y ago
It's been interesting so far to see almost every prediction about the future meet unforeseen obstacles.
"We'll have flying cars!" (Need runways, air traffic control, can't let drivers steer their flying car themselves, too dangerous, etc.)
"Work will be outsourced and we will lose our jobs!" (Your comment)
"Artificial intelligence will replace humans and revolutionize everything!" (AI is really hard and nowhere as promising as once believed)
"With gains in productivity, we'll all work 10 hours of week and spend the rest of time writing poetry and traveling!" (We'll just increase total economic activity by making you work the same number of hours)
"The Internet will put an end to ignorance by giving everyone free access to the total sum of knowledge in existence" (Human biases are really entrenched and can't be changed by any amount of information)
I wonder how many other futuristic predictions being made right now will age like milk.