In 1985, Science Historian Burke ended his highly influential The Day The Universe Changed with a prediction: computers have the power to create a utopian society where everyone's opinions truly vary and people living at Everest can finally have connection to someone living in Alabama.
Well, for better or worse we have that now, and Burke was right, along with his predictions about telework and our standards which seem to change with the seasons.
With his newest season of Connections now out on Curiosity Stream, Burke is again making bold predictions about where society is headed. The short answer: we don't truly know, but technology will play an even greater role than we might be prepared to accept.
If society is based on both certainty and then creating scarcity to drive the economy, Burke is about to shake all of that up....again. It's truly coincidental, but Burke's return to Connections is an interesting bookend to the OpenAI letter. How will society react to both reveals is anyone's guess, but who knows what wild predictions he has in store for us.
Well, for better or worse we have that now, and Burke was right, along with his predictions about telework and our standards which seem to change with the seasons.
With his newest season of Connections now out on Curiosity Stream, Burke is again making bold predictions about where society is headed. The short answer: we don't truly know, but technology will play an even greater role than we might be prepared to accept.
If society is based on both certainty and then creating scarcity to drive the economy, Burke is about to shake all of that up....again. It's truly coincidental, but Burke's return to Connections is an interesting bookend to the OpenAI letter. How will society react to both reveals is anyone's guess, but who knows what wild predictions he has in store for us.
