The Future of Work or How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Us in 20 years
work to be done bigger. But it's wrong to think that necessarily, humans will be placed to
perform those tasks. As machines become more capable, it's likely that theyl take on
the extra lump of work themselves.
Machines perform tasks differently to humans. What humans are currently capable of
doing dosen't represent any sort of summit in what machines might be capable of doing
in the future.
For most of human history one ecomomic problem has dominated: how to make the
economic pie large enough for everyone to live on.
Go back to the turn of the first century AD, and if you took the global economic pie, and
divided it up into equal slices for everyone in the world, everyone would get a few
hundred dollars. And if you rolled forward a thousand years, roughly the same is true.
But in the last few hundred years, economic growth has taken off. Those economic pies
have exploded in size