Atlas Summit 2016 at FreedomFest

Exponential technological changes in computing, communications, robotics, AI, genetic engineering, and nanotech promise to usher in an era of unimagined opportunities, prosperity, human enhancement and longevity. But the resulting social and economic dislocations will be even more profound than those of the Industrial Revolution because adjustments will need to take place over decades or mere years rather than centuries.

Already opposition is arising from many sectors and perspectives—some is based on economic misunderstanding, some on philosophical mistakes such as the so-called “Precautionary Principles,” some on self-sacrificial religious dogma, and some on deep, often anti-human values. Those who welcome and work for a future worthy of human beings must actively promote the ideas and values that will usher in that new era just as the philosophical revolution of Enlightenment thinkers ushered in the Industrial Revolution and the modern world.