If you want to read a really scary story, check out “Information Overload’ by Stephen Witt in the Nov. 3 issue of The New Yorker. Witt details the exponential growth of data centers, the amount of electricity used to power just one, the fact that the power is generated mostly by fossil fuels, how the effect on global warming is handled (deny there is a problem), the way AI is plagiarizing all kinds of writing, and the future redundancy of human labor after robots take over jobs.
I am not sure what jobs will be available 20 years from now. I have a feeling that it won’t be pretty. All of those dystopian science fiction novels and movies are about to become real.
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