"The transition to an economy empowered by AI was unusually fast because, unlike past general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet, we didn't have to spend decades building the infrastructure for it. AI was more like the crowning achievement of the digital revolution - its infrastructure had been built over the previous 40 years."
"I have been mostly heads down on deadline writing a book that tells the opposite story, focusing on the many positive things that are now possible through the next 25 years."
"2025 to 2050 will lay out what I call a "new grand narrative" of how America could harness AI and other transformative technologies to drive an era of great progress and make a much better world."
"I'm writing the following essay from the perspective of an American in the year 2050. She is looking back and briefly outlining some of the changes that occurred between roughly 2025 and 2035, and then listing many of the marvels of the world that surrounds her at the mid-point of the century."
From 2025 to 2035, the shift toward an AI-empowered economy happened unusually quickly because AI relied on infrastructure already built during the prior decades of the digital revolution. Economic disruption was significant, but outcomes were better than many predictions. Between 2025 and 2050, a new grand narrative frames how America could harness AI and other transformative technologies to drive an era of great progress and improve the world. The outlook emphasizes positive possibilities enabled by recent advances in AI, clean energy technologies, and bioengineering, culminating in a world of many “marvels” by the mid-point of the century.
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