Hmm, 388 views in the lifetime of this blog, I am flattered. I even got an email from one person who read this blog and was trying to recruit me, but I wasn't ready to leave my current job so I never replied. I am still not ready to leave my current job, and it is the same job, so that is good. This is the longest that I have been at one company since getting my CS&E degree and I would love it if I was here another 3 years at least, so this is good.
Just wanted to peek in and say, I am still alive. And not really blogging and that may or may not change after this but at least for tonight I have something that I want to share, even if no one else sees it.
James S. Albus wrote this great book before he died about the progress of Automation and Intelligent Systems (and Robots!) and the possibility that in the not too distant future what happened to Farming (90% less farmers now than at the peak of Agrarian society) could happen to Manufacturing and even to white collar work, and then what. This book is a proposal for how we deal with then what:
http://www.amazon.com/Path-Better-World-James-Albus-ebook/dp/B006WHQULI
Rick Webb wrote this great article about the Economics of Star Trek specifically, but about a post-scarcity economics generally and how we could get from where we are now to where we want to be in the future:
https://medium.com/editors-picks/29bab88d50
Give one or both of them a read, I think they are worth it.
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