Homo Deus: a Brief History of Tomorrow - with Yuval Noah Harari
Ri Science Podcast
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Is There Really an Economic Value in Consciousness?
Driverless cars give millionaires a certain amount of economic wealth. They can unionize, and if the government pursues a policy which all these taxi drivers or truck drivers don't like, they can go and strike for they have also some political power. All the economic and political power that was previously shared between millions of drivers is now being monopolized by maybe five or ten individuals. As i said in the beginning, this is not a prophecy. Nobody really knows how the job market, the economy, ow the political system would look like in 20 50. If you don't like this particular possibility, you can still do something about it.
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