future work/technology 2050 and the conscious-technology age for the astana economic forum 2015
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Future Work/Technology 2050 in the Conscious-Technology Age
Astana Economic Forum 2015
Jerome C. Glenn, CEOThe Millennium Project
Technologies affecting the Future of Work
• Synthetic Biology• Artificial Intelligence• Robotic agriculture,
manufacturing, services• Computational Science• Nanotechnology• Tele-Everything & Tele-
Everybody, the Semantic Web
• Quantum computing
• 3-D Printing biology as well as materials and 4-D Printing
• Drones• Augmented Reality, Tele-
Presence• Increasing individual and
collective intelligence • Conscious-Technology
Civilization potentials
If \ Then Nano-technology
Synthetic Biology
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics 3-D Printing Augmented Reality
Nano-technology xxx Synthetic Biology xxx Artificial Intelligence xxx Robotics
xxx 3-D Printing
xxx Augmented Reality xxx
Emerging Technologies Table
Inevitability of New Economics
• Concentration of wealth is increasing• Income gaps are widening• Employment-less economic growth seems the new normal• Return on investment in capital and technology is usually
better than labor• Will future technologies create or replace more jobs?• 50% unemployment is a business-as-usual forecast without
new economic approaches• If so, will some form of guaranteed income be necessary?
• By 2050 everyone is connected to the future Internet and everyone is surrounded by a
• 9.6 billion person market
Will we teach people to find markets worldwidefor self-employment ?
One-Person Businesses
Find markets around the world for what you are interested in doing
not non-existing jobs
What could this look like in 2050?
You are invited to a current study on these issues: https://themp.org/rtd/future_worktechnology_2050/
Some Elements of Next Economic System
Capitalist/socialist/communist systems are early industrial age economic systems
Millennium Project study on 35 elements that might help shape the next economic system, some examples
Non-ownership, as distinct from private ownership or collective/state ownership (e.g. current open source software)
Simultaneous knowing – time lags changed or eliminated in information dissemination with much greater transparency.
Alternatives to continuously creating artificial demand and growth
One-Person Business - Self-employment via the Internet—individuals seek markets for their abilities rather than jobs
Collective intelligence: global commons for the knowledge economy
Collective Intelligence Systems: Each Can Change the Other
Our eye glasses, microscopes, telescopes have affected our consciousness for years –
How might future technologies affect our consciousness?
Humans becoming cyborgs
19852000
20152030
Conscious-Technology
Built environment becoming intelligent
When the distinction between these two trends becomes blurred, we will have reached the
Post-Information Age
Simplification/Generalization of Historyand an Alternative Future
Age /Element Product Power Wealth Place War Time
Agricultural Extraction
Food/Res Religion Land Earth/Res
Location Cyclical
Industrial Machine Nation-State
Capital Factory Resources Linear
Information Info/serv Corporation
Access Office Perception Flexible
Conscious-Technology
Linkage Individual Being Motion Identity Invented
Will we create our own Avatars to be our Cyber-selves?
Could this find your future each day?
Your own cyber clone?
What is the first thinking? And whatdoes the second think about that?
For further information
Jerome C. GlennThe Millennium Project
4421 Garrison Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016 USA+1-202-686-5179 phone/fax
www.StateoftheFuture.orgwww.themp.org (Global Futures Intelligence System)