Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum that robots will soon outnumber humans. That kind of claim gets people asking whether we're heading for a Jetsons paradise or an all-out dystopia. James's take is that we'll probably land somewhere stranger than either, the same way nobody predicted smartphones or that we'd hand over our privacy without much of a fight.
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Transcripts
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This is the Daily note from jamesabrown.net Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum that there will soon be more robots than people, and everyone immediately jumped to the obvious question, will we get the Jetsons or Dystopia?
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My answer?
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Probably neither.
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That's the thing about the future.
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It's never the version anyone imagined.
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The Jetsons didn't predict smartphones and dystopian movies, didn't predict that we'd hand over our privacy voluntarily and happily.
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For the first time since I was a kid, the future feels beyond my comprehension.
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Not because I'm afraid of it, though I am a little.
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It's because I finally accepted that whatever's coming will be strange in ways that nobody predicted.
