First published at 10:18 UTC on August 14th, 2022.
TED podcast interview with Chris Anderson, the head of TED, published on Tuesday, 9th August 2022. I've put the following comments made by this evil individual up front and the full interview straight after
In this, Harari contrasted the 20th ce…
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TED podcast interview with Chris Anderson, the head of TED, published on Tuesday, 9th August 2022. I've put the following comments made by this evil individual up front and the full interview straight after
In this, Harari contrasted the 20th century with the 21st while forecasting what he said is the current century’s and future economies progressively diminishing need for human beings. He said:
“If you go back to the middle of the 20th century — and it doesn’t matter if you’re in the United States with Roosevelt, or if you’re in Germany with Hitler, or even in the USSR with Stalin — and you think about building the future, then your building materials are those millions of people who are working hard in the factories, in the farms, the soldiers. You need them. You don’t have any kind of future without them.”
“Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don’t need the vast majority of the population,” he concluded, “because because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering, Most people don’t contribute anything to that, except perhaps for their data, and whatever people are still doing which is useful, these technologies increasingly will make redundant and will make it possible to replace the people.”
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