That is a terrible guess, and it isn’t even remotely close on the scale of decades.
No. It's based on how technologies are adopted, which tends to follow an s-curve.
Level 4 self-driving cars are already on the road in China & the US.
Yes. The logic of al these changes with AI & robotics being able to do most work, is that some sort of socialism is the only economic system that will work in the future.
I suspect from now on we will see more and more strikes and protests like these. I'd guess by 2030 or so they will be a widespread global phenomenon. By that point, self-driving cars will rapidly be replacing most driving jobs too.
Most of us instinctively feel sympathy with the striking workers - deep down we know AI/robots will be coming for our jobs one day too.
But there's a paradox here. AI tends towards what economists call zero marginal cost, in plain language - near free.
What if AI Doctors as good as humans were nearly free & every human on the planet had access to their expertise. Surely, that is something to go on strike for - not against.
Yep, destined to one day be a future RomCom meet cute cliché.
If you could easily identity all the ruthless sociopaths, there would be some people who'd think that was a great hiring tool for their businesses.
I would be interested to hear your reasoning and facts to support this assertion.
I wonder when someone is going to figure how to speed up domestication via gene editing. There's a huge untapped market for exotic pets that could be house trained.
He won’t be able to just take control of the Fed without Congress,
Perhaps, but they've abdicated responsibility on everything else so far. I understand that people have hope the normal times will resume, but autocracy has a trajectory. So far, almost nothing has stopped it in the US.
The amount of precise manipulation needed to do something as simple as repair the feeder mechanism on a welder,
If robots can build cars, I'd guess they can manage that.
They day will come when robots can do all the maintenance they need on each other.
The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) makes Big Tech (like Meta, Google) reveal how they track users, moderate content, and handle disinformation. Most of these companies hate the law and are lobbying against it in Brussels—but except for Twitter (now X), they’re at least trying to follow it for EU users.
Meanwhile, US politics may push Big Tech to resist these rules more aggressively, especially since they have strong influence over the current US government.
AI will be the next big tech divide: The US will likely have little regulation, while the EU will take a much stronger approach to regulating. Growing tensions—over trade, military threats, and tech policies—are driving the US and EU apart, and this split will continue for at least four more years.
Well at least they are mental health workers, so they can deal with it better than most.