Few of many 'Future of Work' articles that is centred around creating a universal basic income. Considering that 70% [Unsure of source, but I have read this somewhere] of 'workforce' anywhere are 'disengaged' (bored, for one. Tired, for another) or 'actively disengaged' (walk in to a government office :)), maybe it is time bots and smart contracts put them out of their disengagement misery.
Is it erroneous to think that people cannot be 're-purposed' to life and perform in the modus of their time, to participate in their contemporary world, having been released from antiquated tasks, and monotony and the meaningless? Once we're removed from mundanities, will the future of work be derived from our barely tapped wells of creativity? At the same time we would still need super-specialist developers to create and maintain the (march to) technological singularity, and several more to regulate and sustain life in the eco/bio/sphere. The concept of a Universal Comfortable Life (as an inference from Universal Basic Income) is interesting. I'm reminded after long, of this - now old - initially dystopian, and then hopeful story from Marshall Brain. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm :: Vinay Rao On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan < kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote: > Posting this [1] on the only place I know where there are better minds than > mine who can tell me not to worry so I can sleep better at night. > > Kiran > > [1] > > https://medium.com/basic-income/deep-learning-is-going-to-teach-us-all-the-lesson-of-our-lives-jobs-are-for-machines-7c6442e37a49#.4mn452rn9 > > -- > Regards, > Kiran >
