5/10/2023 0 Comments Life 3.0 maxMoney didn’t motivate Einstein to invent special relativity theory any more than it motivated Linus Torvalds to create the free Linux operating system. However, Marshall Brain points out that many of the finest examples of human creativity-from scientific discoveries to creation of literature, art, music and design-were motivated not by a desire for profit but by other human emotions, such as curiosity, an urge to create, or the reward of peer appreciation. “Intellectual property rights are sometimes hailed as the mother of creativity and invention. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence That’s what’s always happened before, like with the invention of the wheel and the plow.” But we have more jobs than ever today, and they’re better too: I’d much rather pull a light carriage through town than spend all day walking in circles to power a stupid mine-shaft pump.” “But what if this internal combustion engine thing really takes off?” “I’m sure there’ll be new new jobs for horses that we haven’t yet imagined. “I’m worried about technological unemployment.” “Neigh, neigh, don’t be a Luddite: our ancestors said the same thing when steam engines took our industry jobs and trains took our jobs pulling stage coaches. Imagine two horses looking at an early automobile in the year 1900 and pondering their future. “In his 2007 book Farewell to Alms, the Scottish-American economist Gregory Clark points out that we can learn a thing or two about our future job prospects by comparing notes with our equine friends.
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