“What Have We Done?”: Silicon Valley Engineers Fear They've Created a Monster
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I think we will need to infuse these distributed technologies into our institutions in order to create a society that works with them. For example, we need distributed databases that can give real numbers for resource availability if we are going to be able to ensure that everyone has their minimum needs met if we can't rely on wages to be adequate anymore. AIs keep getting more powerful so this isn't going to just affect an underclass. On the other hand if we have accurate resource numbers and efficient use of them then maybe we can find a way to adjust wages and perhaps even add many more jobs by finding new ways to leverage AI and automation in symbiotic ways.
To me brain computer interfaces are actually going to be critical in terms of ensuring that humans stay relevant and.. useful to other humans. It doesn't make sense to just stop all development of technology and forfeit all of the benefits. We need to adjust.
Seem very unlikely. People have been saying that forever, but it is only getting less likely. For instance the Internet is probably the worst it has ever been for distributed technologies. Probably only a major reorganization would change that. Which isn't likely to happen with all the companies relying on centralization becoming increasingly influential, if not dominant. Even society is probably worse than it has been for at least a few decades for creating something outside of the norm. Large tech is the new big oil or whatever.
I'd long thought otherwise. I've come to admit my error.
This should be a bood thing, except we're stuck in a system that needs everyone to have a job. I don't know exactly what a new system would look like, but i think it will have to start with a little more socialism and distributing the vast resources a tiny few people have more equitably.