David M Mills Ph.d.

Our Uncertain Future: when Digital Evolution, Global Warming and Automation Converge David M Mills Ph.d.

Many different predictions about our future: Some experts predict an incredible future propelled by digital technology, others predict destruction due to climate change, others predict automation will cause massive unemployment, others speak of advantages or dangers of artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, genetic engineering. But there can be only one future.

To take a new look at our future, the findings to date on climate change, automation, economics, history of technology, and future digital and other technological changes have been thoroughly reviewed, and a synthesis offered that includes all these forces in a single future.

The result is a prediction of a future in which the precise details of our technological progress cannot be determined in advance, but a future which is predicted to unfold with ever more increasing rates of change, and a future that is incredible in its overall possibilities.

The future, though fraught with danger, can be surprisingly bright - if we can avoid those actions which would impede our progress while making good use of the opportunities embedded in the challenges to come