A Promising Future?

Who Owns the Future, Preface and chapter 1. The thought of humans creating technology that is slowly making ourselves inadequate is a scary thought, even though it's been happening for years. For example, the auto industry, replacing factory workers with machines and leaving thousands without jobs. 

"We're setting up a situation where better technology in the long term just means more unemployment". Technology is growing at an exponential rate; this is obvious if you look at the technological advances from the past 10 years compared to the 10 years before that. 

The chapter discusses free information vs paid information, like all of you I would love for all information to be free as google already makes it seem, but if paying for certain information would hold a strong middle class and not leave us in a hyper-unemployment state then I would strongly support that. Who Owns the Future should open our eyes to what could be happening as we grow up, graduate and compete for jobs. But will you be competing against a human or a machine?