Author Alec Ross looks at how robots,genomics and spacious data are going to change our lives foreverAs a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton, Alec Ross travelled the world with the remit of cataloguing the best examples of innovation the human race has to offer. His trips took him to Korea, and the Congo and Silicon Valley (and far enough overall he has calculated,to take him from the soil to the moon twice, with a side trip from the US to current Zealand), or left him with a concern that the rate of change could leave many behind.
From robots entering the workforce and leading to the very genuine prospect of redundancy within a decade for the million employees of Taiwan’s electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn to genetic engineering unleashing the possibility of designer babies,the power of technology to reshape the world is reaching historic levels.
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Source: theguardian.com