When Stephen Hawking speaks, we listen to his bites of wisdom.
In a Reddit Ask Me Anything session last week, the scientist predicted that economic inequality will skyrocket as more jobs become automated and the rich owners of machines refuse to share their fast-proliferating wealth.
“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.”
Spot on, we think here at The Futures Agency. What do you think?
Posted by Rudy de Waele aka @mtrends / shift2020.com