Tuesday, 3 January 2017

04/01/17 - What Stephen Hawking gets right and wrong about ‘the most dangerous time for our planet’




https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/12/07/what-stephen-hawking-gets-right-and-wrong-about-the-most-dangerous-time-for-our-planet/?utm_term=.9fc814bb4106

Technology is the main culprit of widening the gap between the haves and the have nots. Even resulting in brexit and trump, people feel abandoned. Technology is taking jobs away from humans and people are becoming more aware of what they do and do not have. People are not taking three voice and choice seriously.

O Uber now have driverless cars
O amazon are planning to create supermarkets run by robots.
Apple supplier Foxconn replaces 60000 factory workers with robots (2016)

I think that advancements in technology has widened many gaps. Age wise, politically the youth are feeling failed their voices are not being heard. Nothing has changed though the voting age is the same, what is being voted for is the same. the only thing that has changes is the ability to share our voice only to realise we cannot change anything because we cannot vote. Technology is taking over from driverless cars to robotic controlled supermarkets. there is an obsession to make everything as robotic as possible but i think that this will render the less fortunate/working class useless as there ability is no longer needed and the gap between the rich and the poor will widen.

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