When we think about the future our horizons are constrained by present day ideologies and social systems
When we think about the future our horizons are constrained by present day ideologies and social systems. For instance Democracy encourages us to believe in a democratic future with globalised capitalism. If we think in months we focus on immediate problems such as the present day wars, the refugee crisis, the Donald Trumps, the economy, if we think in decades, the climate, the growing inequality, the loss of jobs to automation. But if we look at life in total, science is converging on data processing and AI that is developing itself with algorithms, (which we are losing control over.) Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness and soon rather than later it will be consigned to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Smartphones and the like. You might think that the above question is stupid but it won’t be long before we will be witnessing the most unequal societies in history. We humans will soon be living with robots that process data without any subjective experiences or consciousness o...