Great stuff! But what will we do with ourselves when everything is so easy? I suppose keep innovating and creating without limitations. Plus, that´s still a while away before everything is easy and accesible for everyone on earth.
Can you please elaborate further on the reasons you believe that the next Industrial Revolution will need distributed, internet-native governance and ownership structures?
You miss the mark with your critique of those that don't want to work hard for hard work's sake. It's not that people are incapable or unwilling to work hard, it's that often times the modern condition in tech is working harder for no apparent reason or bigger picture other than making the investors of your tech company richer, often times just to make them richer faster. If you are lucky, you share a piece of that pie in the form of a minuscule amount of equity, but most often you do not (or it's so diluted or opaque what your share is, it's not going to make you rich even in the best scenario).
It's the lack of a point that makes people want to simply do their jobs so they can get the money and then spend their time doing things they actually enjoy, and perhaps work hard on their own hobbies instead of needlessly toiling 'to provide greater shareholder value'.
People in positions of power and privilege often overlook the fact that most of us have to take jobs we wouldn't otherwise take just because we need the experience on our resumes to get the jobs we actually want to do, to work for the missions we actually want to be a part of. So what's so bad about not working your ass off for a company that doesn't actually care about you and will lay you off at a moments notice just to provide investors with peace of mind?
Very few things are more annoying than the IQ/population graph with the three-headed ornamentation. It substitutes insult for argument and should persuade its audience to be very careful about what is being claimed.
There are many well documented supply constraints surrounding current solar and battery technologies. History has repeatedly shown that innovators will identify problems like this and find a way around them. But it does not promise that those solutions will arrive like widgets in a Just In Time factory process. I would have my flying car if we had succeeded in generating electricity using fusion.
Awesome writeup.
The first one ever where the author techno-utopianism doesn't over-ride reality.
Great stuff! But what will we do with ourselves when everything is so easy? I suppose keep innovating and creating without limitations. Plus, that´s still a while away before everything is easy and accesible for everyone on earth.
Another banger!
Can you please elaborate further on the reasons you believe that the next Industrial Revolution will need distributed, internet-native governance and ownership structures?
You miss the mark with your critique of those that don't want to work hard for hard work's sake. It's not that people are incapable or unwilling to work hard, it's that often times the modern condition in tech is working harder for no apparent reason or bigger picture other than making the investors of your tech company richer, often times just to make them richer faster. If you are lucky, you share a piece of that pie in the form of a minuscule amount of equity, but most often you do not (or it's so diluted or opaque what your share is, it's not going to make you rich even in the best scenario).
It's the lack of a point that makes people want to simply do their jobs so they can get the money and then spend their time doing things they actually enjoy, and perhaps work hard on their own hobbies instead of needlessly toiling 'to provide greater shareholder value'.
People in positions of power and privilege often overlook the fact that most of us have to take jobs we wouldn't otherwise take just because we need the experience on our resumes to get the jobs we actually want to do, to work for the missions we actually want to be a part of. So what's so bad about not working your ass off for a company that doesn't actually care about you and will lay you off at a moments notice just to provide investors with peace of mind?
Thank you for writing a phenomenal piece!
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/the-renewable-energy-revolution-will-need-renewable-storage - brings this incredible new yorker article to mind, fascinating stuff
Very few things are more annoying than the IQ/population graph with the three-headed ornamentation. It substitutes insult for argument and should persuade its audience to be very careful about what is being claimed.
There are many well documented supply constraints surrounding current solar and battery technologies. History has repeatedly shown that innovators will identify problems like this and find a way around them. But it does not promise that those solutions will arrive like widgets in a Just In Time factory process. I would have my flying car if we had succeeded in generating electricity using fusion.