Tootfinder

Eleven Theses on Technological Hype as Capital:
https://interregnum.ghost.io/eleven-theses-on-technological-hype-as-capital/

Eleven Theses on Technological Hype as Capital
Hype is a kind of currency in the tech world, and when so much of the market for innovation depends on speculation, all kinds of monsters appear. Vassilis Galanos theorises this hype as a form of capital.

Adam Dorr concluded that the current AI wave will not just convulse -- but obliterate the labour market by 2045.
What cars did to horses and carts, and electricity to gas lamps, and digital cameras to Kodak, are templates for the coming shock, he says.
“Technology has a new target in its crosshairs – and that’s us. That’s our labour.”
Some sectors will have an interregnum during which humans can work effectively alongside robots
– just like the period when chess gr…