Automation and Longevity Impacts on Social Security and Medicare

Some people believe that successful antiaging would have a huge impact on social security and Medicare. They believe that if breakthrough medicine reduced the death probability each year three times, then this would bankrupt social security or Medicare. If someone who was 90 had one-third the death probability then it would be like they were …

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The Jobs After Automation Will Be to Satisfy Rising Standards and Competitive Demands

When particular areas are automated then what is provided from automation becomes the competitive ante. The work and the activity will be to add more. This could mean creating more locations or finding ways to use more people to provide a better or more convenient experience. What businesses will need to understand is where will …

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SpaceX Lays Off 10% of Staff After Disappointing Fund Raising

SpaceX is laying off ten percent of their 6000+ staff. SpaceX has very expensive projects to develop the Superheavy Starship (aka BFR) and the Starlink global space-based internet. SpaceX makes most of its money from commercial and national security satellite launches, as well as two NASA contracts, one a multibillion-dollar deal to deliver cargo to …

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AI will create millions more jobs than are lost because of economic growth

AI and related technologies such as robots, drones and autonomous vehicles could provide a net boost to employment in China of around 12% over the next two decades, equating to around 90 million additional jobs. Around 26% of existing jobs in China could be automated over the next 20 years, but this is projected to …

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China applying implementation strengths in Global AI competition

Kai-Fu Lee heads up a $2 billion AI and technology-focused venture fund (Sinovation) and used to lead Microsoft Research in Asia and Google China. He has written a book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order. He believes that China’s entrepreneurs are using AI to solve real-world problems just like entrepreneurs in …

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Ten year $1.275 billion US National Quantum Initiative proposed to get more quantum engineers

There is a proposed $1.275 billion National Quantum Initiative to accelerating research and training in quantum computing. The funding would be provided over ten years. Several centers of excellence for quantum computing would help train many quantum engineers. Chris Monroe, cofounder of IonQ, was one of the authors. IonQ is developing a general-purpose trapped ion …

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