We are living through a new age of instability. The pace of our lives, the pace of change, the introduction of new technologies — augmented reality, virtual reality, wearable technology, artificial intelligence — is bewildering at best. To many it is deeply unsettling.
Power has shifted from traditional institutions to elaborate Silicon Valley campuses in north California. Google’s inanimate algorithm has more impact on the success or failure of a modern business than any industrial strategy cooked up in Westminster. Some say this is just the beginning, that we are weaving unthinkingly towards the singularity, the moment when machines become more intelligent than us, with only a few tech visionaries having any sort of plan for where we might be headed.
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