Doing futurism is fun not only because it demonstrates how wrong you can be, but also it helps you to clarify your thinking on the present
My biggest concern would be that with technoloogy/automation, labour demand continues to reduce as supply continues to grow leading to a cheapening of all labour. Property/resource control then becomes the key to successful survival/high standard of living whist the working poor - including PhDs - get poorer and poorer...
The accumulators shall inherit the earth... notes from no w here
The accumulators shall inheritmisappropriate the earth...
Before proceeding Ishmael lays some ground definitions for his student. He defines: Takers as people often referred to as "civilized." Particularly, the culture born in an Agricultural Revolution that began about 10,000 years ago in the Near East; the culture of Ishmael's pupil. Leavers as people of all other cultures; sometimes referred to as "primitive." A story as an interrelation between the gods, man, and the Earth, with a beginning, middle, and end. To enact is to strive to make a story come true. *A culture as a people who are enacting a story.
one college faculty teaching (neo-liberal) economics to millions of students worldwide - via the WWW - and the better known colleges will probably become brands/franchises teaching/certifying millions on a global scale
would more or less spell the end of academia as a career option. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
