If you want to see what the Technological Singularity is starting to do to the whole world look at drones with Hellfire missiles, look at Uber trying to create a world fleet of self driving cars and taxis and look at what Air BnB are doing to hotels around the world as the hotels slowly go out of business by being undercut by things like Air BnB worldwide. For the consumer UBER and Air BnB are good things. But then you also have to look at all the wrecked lives as Hotels go bankrupt around the world one by one and as taxi drivers and then later all truck drivers who drive for a living lose their jobs too to self driving robot cars and trucks worldwide.
What does the Technological Singularity mean to you?
If you don't have a degree somewhere in Computer Science and instead drive a car or truck for a living (just like more men than any other job do) it is the eventual end of your job, possibly your family's livelihood and possibly your suicide in the long run.
This is what the Technological Singularity might mean for you if you are not a rich techie or an investor above middle Class Worldwide during the rest of this century and beyond.
So, revolts like the voters are having in the U.S. by voting for Sanders and Trump, (which are two solutions to the same problem of the death of the middle Class caused by the Technological Singularity approaching) are going to become more and more common around the world as people lose their jobs working for hotels or taxi or truck driving companies around the world.
The Technological Singularity makes it's own rules just like past industrial revolutions did. So, educating yourself and finding a way to survive these changes is paramount for everyone who wants to survive this digital Technological Singularity progressing faster now each day.
My question might be: "Will Western Democracies survive the Technological Singularity?"
Or will Fascist or Communist Totalitarian states take their place eventually?
Or will human extinction not be far away?
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