Welcome to the Augmented Age

Author(s): Alex Bates

Originally published on Towards AI.

The next economic revolution is a revolution of the mind.

We’ve had these revolutions before. The invention of agriculture more than 10,000 years ago set a new benchmark for modernity. The invention of steam power triggered the Industrial Revolution, forever changing human labor between the 18th and 19th centuries. Science matured during this time, and the development of the assembly line made short work of manufacturing complicated products.

That brings us to the digital revolution of the 1990s, which saw the proliferation of the modern internet and the severe mainstreaming of personal computers. Fast forward to the present day, and we are… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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