A crisis can be a turning point for a society. Which way will we go now? Harari says many trends are not inevitable. He gives two examples: (1) Surveillance technology can be centralised or decentralised -- one supports authoritarianism, the other devolution (2) The crisis could accelerate the creation of a ‘useless’ class of people displaced by robots and other technologies but it need not be. Political decisions could be made to let them remain useful.
Read here (DW, April 22, 2020)
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John Campbell shares his findings on Omicron. View here (Youtube, Nov 27, 2021)
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