#9 Tech-positive vs Tech-negative: Jobs, Society & Politics with Tony Curzon Price

Last Week on Earth with GARI

This episode’s guests is Tony Curzon Price, strategic advisor at the UK’s Cabinet Office, and an advisory board member of ours, with a polemic of tech-positive and tech-negative perspectives discussing the future of work, can we highlight more tangible explanations for geopolitical as well as social activity other than values and identity, Using technology as a tool, not a machine and what are the limits to social understanding and society’s self-understanding?

• What is the relationship between the technological disruption that we're going through and the strange politics that we’ve been through in the past 10 years - is there a link? How big a fix does the system need to have all the benefits of machines?
• What is the evidence that we’re heading to big technological unemployment?
• Technology as a tool or machine? Empowering or replacing?
• Amazon’s first non-US store without checkout, linking your face and behaviour to your amazon account
• Bullshit jobs - at least in the checkout jobs you know your purpose, in the bullshit jobs, you’re pushing paper around and you have absolutely no idea how this is adding to anyone's welfare
• How to improve the adaptability of society in the rise of technology?
• The history of monopolies
• Simplifying the spirit of the age - what do we share globally and what do geopolitical events mean?
• Rodrik said that the rise and current power of right-wing populism has economic roots and that the conflict over identity and values is more of an alignment than the foundation - do you think a problem across the board of discussion is overly focusing on identity and values and not going deep enough into more tangible reasons (like economics), despite the latter being more discernible?
• Is identity a luxury good and are we enjoying more and more of it?
• Using technology as a tool, not a machine
• What are the limits to social understanding and society’s self-understanding?
• “Laissez-faire economists-types think they won the argument intellectually in the 1930s with Hayek and Lange and they won it actually with the fall of the soviet system and they think that that’s just done. I think that the data and technology revolution brings the calculation debate into question, that it was a contingent win, you couldn’t plan and organise things that were very complicated with the means at your disposal then. Now we have enormous means.

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