On Jun 22, 2016, at 10:58 AM, Jim Vassilakos <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

For example, is it neccesarily the case that the sort of extreme automation as described in the video will result in an extreme concentration of economic power?

As our society is currently constituted, I fear that it would; followed shortly by the ‘makes the worst parts of the French and Russian Revolutions look like polite drawing-room debates’ uprising by the 99.99% who are left to starve. 

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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