The Wealth of Humans
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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Pokemon Go
Pokemon Go has had people running around increasing their calorific output 30% and so Microsoft Research no financial connection to Niantic reckons it's added a couple of million years of quality adjusted lifespan years to its players. It could be that we stop thinking of usefulness or uselessness in terms of market value and more in terms of you know pure humanity like you're live therefore you're useful or therefore you matter, he says. He adds: "Perhaps we are from Pokemon Go finding things that we could do we could enlist this con cognitive surplus"
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