Is Singularity near, asks William D. Nordhaus, economist at Yale Uiversity, and does it lead to economic growth? His answer is: no. I say: yes, SIngularity is near, but indeed, it does not lead to economic growth – as we define that now in terms of GDP. Singularity is a gross word that I never use in public.…
Futurist Marcel Bullinga participated in a Delphi survey of 300 global experts about the Future of Work in 2050 by the State of the Future Milennium Project. The questions are clear, the answers are not. Will future technologies (AI, robots and such) create more jobs than they destroy? Will it increase the global income gap? Will a basic income be necessary? Here…
27 January 2014 – interview with Dutch futurist Marcel Bullinga by Russian opinion weekly Ogoniok (in Russian) / PDF (in English) – Is it true that rates of new technologies introduction and adoption are speeding up today? What are the reasons for that? Yes that is true. The main reason is that we have a connected world since a…
Are You Better than a Robot? The future explained to kids in 7 pictures A creation by photographer Alex Dokter from Fotostudioalkmaar.nl