Are we prepared for exponential technological growth?

<p>This week, Eric Kohn, Stephen Barrows, and Dan Churchwell discuss the new vaccine mandate President Joe Biden has announced for businesses larger than 100 employees, to be administered by OSHA. In what ways are they failing to consider the role of incentives, and what unintended consequences might this effort have? Will it just drive people further into their political corners and continue to undermine faith in our institutions? Then, they discuss a new piece in Wired from Azeen Azhar about the concept of exponential growth. Are we prepared for a time when technological growth happens at a blinding pace? Can we even effectively prepare for it? Are we at all prepared to cope with the unrest that it will create?</p><br><p><strong>Subscribe to </strong><a href="https://www.acton.org/actonunwind" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Acton Unwind</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://www.acton.org/actonline" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Acton Line</strong></a><strong> & </strong><a href="https://www.acton.org/actonvault" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Acton Vault</strong></a><strong> </strong></p><br><p><a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/exponential-age-azeem-azhar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Exponential Age will transform economics forever | Wired</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-way-amazon-uses-tech-to-squeeze-performance-out-of-workers-deserves-its-own-name-bezosism-11631332821?mod=searchresults_pos5&page=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Way Amazon Uses Tech to Squeeze Performance Out of Workers Deserves Its Own Name: Bezosism | WSJ</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy/dp/0691136408" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger | Marc Levinson</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Technology-Trap-Capital-Labor-Automation-ebook/dp/B07M8YV8PF" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation | Carl Benedikt Frey</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-lm-sacasas.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ezra Klein Interviews L.M. Sacasas | New York Times</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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