Posted on 08/04/2017 9:41:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Antonio Garcia Martinez fears revolution and armed conflict will erupt in America in the coming decades
A former Facebook executive has quit his job and now lives as a recluse in the wilderness – because he is convinced that machines will take over the world.
Antonio Garcia Martinez worked as a project manager for the social media giant in Silicon Valley but became terrified by the relentless march of technology.
He reckons that machines will have taken half of humanity’s jobs within 30 years, sparking revolt and armed conflict.
So he quit his job, fled his home and now lives in woodland north of Seattle with a gun for protection.
He spoke to new two-part BBC2 documentary “Secrets of Silicon Valley”, which explores the growing influence of the tech hub on global development.
Mr Martinez said: “If the world really does end, there aren’t going to be many places to run.
“Within 30 years, half of humanity won’t have a job. It could get ugly. There could be a revolution.
“I’ve seen what the world will look like in five to 10 years.
"You may not believe it but it's coming, and it's coming in the form of a self-driving truck that's going to run you over.
"There are 300 million guns in this country, one for every man, woman and child, and they're mostly in the hands of those who are getting economically displaced. There could be a revolt.
"You don't realise it but we're in a race between technology and politics, and technologists are winning. They're way ahead.
"They will destroy jobs and disrupt economies before we even react to them and we really should be thinking about that."
He said other ex-Silicon Valley employees had also resigned and were living on land isolated from society because they were equally frightened of what the future held.
Programme host Jamie Bartlett, director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, said: "The tech gods are selling us all a better future but Silicon Valley's promise to build a better world relies on tearing up the world as it is. They call it 'disruption'.
"The mantra of Silicon Valley is that disruption is always good, and through smartphones and digital technology we can create more efficient, more convenient, faster services and everyone wins from that.
"But behind that beautifully designed app or that slick platform there's a quite brutal form of capitalism unfolding and it's leaving some of the poorest people in society behind.
"There's a risk Silicon Valley's promise to build a better world could inflict a nightmare future on millions of us.
"The big secret in Silicon Valley is that the next wave of disruption could tear apart the way capitalism works, and as a result the way we live our lives could be utterly transformed. "
Artificial intelligence pioneer Jeremy Howard said: "People aren't scared enough. "They're saying 'Don't worry about it, there will always be more jobs'.
"And it's founded on this purely historical thing of there has been a revolution before, it was called the Industrial Revolution, and after it there were still enough jobs, therefore this new, totally different, totally unrelated revolution will also have enough jobs.
"It's a ludicrously short-sighted, meaningless argument which incredibly smart people are making."
He said if society did nothing, a "tiny class of society" would own "all of the capital and all of the data and everybody else adds no economic value, is despised by the class that has things because they're worthless" creating "massive social unrest".
“More work for me.
I’m a Blade Runner.
I’ll “retire” as many as they need.”
LOL!!!! :-)
I’m trying to “guide” a 23 yr old grandson...he’s kinda lost...got 2 yrs at community college..general degree...I don’t want him to go to university without specific goal which he doesn’t have.
The Una-Blabber!...................
Haha...they’ll be “managing the robots”...oh wait...I think they already kinda ARE the one worlders Robots
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free yes and eternally young
“Well, here it is! The new government robot that will make it easier for the rest of us. Go ahead. Ask it any question.”
“Hey. Robot. Who did you vote for in the last election, Trump or Hillary?”
“I can not vote.”
“Get this *%#^{%#} union buster out of here!”
At least there’s insurance;
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/old-glory-insurance/n10766?snl=1
maybe we all go down to 30 hour work weeks (3-10 hour days) and have way more leisure time?
And just how is this different that what we have now?....................
Has he considered a trade, perhaps plumber or electrician? If nothing else, if he’s kinda lost that type of training will keep him physically and mentally focused.
You would think if this is the case then wouldn’t importing a whole bunch of ignorant savages from the third world who breed like rabbits be the worst thing you could do?
You would think that with robots doing the lion’s share of work you would want a smaller population?
Same way with the supposed global warming, the left whines about the west consumption of resources, saying that we need to have fewer children, we need to use less resources, generate less carbon/trash/food etc... but then champions the importation of turd world savages that will come into the system and breed like literal rabid rabbits which will increase the demand for food, consumer goods, while generating more trash and carbon, yadda yaddda.
It doesn’t take long to see the the left is fundamentally corrupt as hell, because they never follow their own damned logic they purport to believe in...
[ maybe we all go down to 30 hour work weeks (3-10 hour days) and have way more leisure time? ]
France tried that, they made laws and imported violent biological robots from the turd world mooseslime part of the world...
I’d rather work 50 hours a week than end up like france.
An Idle population is Marx’s plaything.
Automation is fine. There are just too many people. We should be paying low-IQ Americans to self-sterilize, halt all immigration other than high-skilled people, and deporting every single illegal, refugee and unskilled visa holder.
Assuming the government didn’t tax every increment of increased productivity, as we get richer, we’d work less.
The average work week (in terms of hours) fell considerable from the 19th century to the 20th. Then, the greedy government started taxing as much as it could get away with. Nowadays, it’s taxing so hard the middle class is losing ground, and we’re still running a deficit.
With a true free-market economy, the average workweek would be down to 25 or 30 hours by now, and would continue to fall as we are further enriched by advances in technology.
It’s pretty easy to figure out how “the future” would work if we only need half the workers we now need. Each worker works half the hours they now work.
Compare how fair this is to the socialist “solution:” The people of the basket of deplorables have to work as hard as ever, and have no health care, while the minorities and trannies and such don’t have to work at all, get health care for free along with the surgeries to make their transition to whatever gender or species or household appliance they identify as this week.
N.S. - Hilarious!
Teachers will have 6 months off + weekends and holidaysas schooling switches to computers.....with full pay of course.
Well, when cars came along all the blacksmiths lost their jobs... and a lot of loggers too.
Guess this could be true. /s
Half the kids start out at a University with an idea....the choice really comes in the 3rd year.
Social media is not the kind of foundation you ought build a society on.. its like a sandy beach. here to go,, gone bonkers tomorrow.
She’ll just make you cut the lawn twice a week and shovel snow for every lousy one inch.
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