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Hawking on Machines and Equality

October 15, 2015 Comments Off on Hawking on Machines and Equality

Will machines make our lives easier and more comfortable in the future?  Maybe it depends on who you are.  In today’s Thursday Thought, Stephen Hawking takes a look into the future.

“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.”

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