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Freakonomics Radio
It was described as a book that predicts the future using emerging technologies, though with a sarcastic tone due to the difficulty of accurate future prediction. The authors discussed a range of technologies and their potential impacts.
This is one of those books where we predict the future. Fortunately predicting the future is pretty easy.
— Episode: 310. Are We Running Out of Ideas?
Episode: 310. Are We Running Out of Ideas?
It was described as a book that predicts the future using emerging technologies, though with a sarcastic tone due to the difficulty of accurate future prediction. The authors discussed a range of technologies and their potential impacts.
This is one of those books where we predict the future. Fortunately predicting the future is pretty easy.
They all almost always still have jobs which is good for those people.
We've been working on it for over 50 years and we still haven't managed to make it power a toaster.
So there's this weird thing where we might destroy our species as we know it while chasing total factor productivity.
The one thing that gives me a little bit of optimism Is I think somewhat famously in the 19th century physics there were a lot of people that thought they had reached the point where we were We were just figuring out the details now We basically got it figured out and then there was Einstein in the quantum revolution.