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The Coming Technology Boom

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3 pointsKaibeezy3 comments

And poof!, the last million years of evolution, up in smoke, but in centuries instead of millennia.

  - mRNA vaccines
  - geothermal energy
  - fusion
  - autonomous vehicles
  - electric vehicles
  - AI
  - space exploration
  - anti-aging
  - anti-obesity
  - lab meat

All of which would increase productivity and wealth, but unevenly, so that “universal basic income would become a red hot topic”.

Lower energy prices and lower meat prices seem like they would reduce inequality, not increase it. A few more of the things seem "inequality neutral" to me (vaccines, electric vehicles). That's about half the list (and IMHO, the half that will have a bigger impact on the world than the other half).

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