Rodney Hide: The Future

Somewhere this week a team of consultants are finishing a business case for Council for a car park building. It will rest on careful traffic modelling and solid historical data. And in fifteen years it will be empty while the cars that should have filled it are out working.

That's the problem with all government. It drives by the rear-vision mirror.

Mike's Minute: I think Elon Musk is wrong

If you have time, there's a podcast from The Economist that features Elon Musk in it and he argues that AI will lead to so much productivity that you won't need money because things won't cost anything.

It was so odd that;