Globalization made the world flat
AI drills holes into the infinitesimal

Alin Răuțoiu

Introduction

Introduction

Artificial Intelligence is the hottest topic.

AI Apocalypse

End of bad work

End of good work

End of the human world

Is it a dud?

Introduction

Introduction

Abstraction, not simplification.

How do we start talking about AI

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

  • AI will destroy mankind or allow it to destroy itself
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - good version
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - bad version
  • Nothing transformative will happen

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

  • AI will destroy mankind or allow it to destroy itself
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - good version
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - bad version
  • Nothing transformative will happen

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

  • AI will destroy mankind or allow it to destroy itself
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - good version
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - bad version
  • Nothing transformative will happen

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

  • AI will destroy mankind or allow it to destroy itself
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - good version
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - bad version
  • Nothing transformative will happen

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

  • AI will destroy mankind or allow it to destroy itself
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - good version
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - bad version
  • Nothing transformative will happen

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

  • AI will destroy mankind or allow it to destroy itself
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - good version
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - bad version
  • Nothing transformative will happen

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

  • AI will destroy mankind or allow it to destroy itself
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - good version
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - bad version
  • Nothing transformative will happen

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

  • AI will destroy mankind or allow it to destroy itself
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - good version
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - bad version
  • Nothing transformative will happen

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

  • AI will destroy mankind or allow it to destroy itself
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - good version
  • AI will eliminate most jobs - bad version
  • Nothing transformative will happen

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

What was the role of technology for the past 40 years?

Introduction

How do we start talking about AI

What was the role of technology for the past 40 years?

To answer, I'll address:

  • Globalization
  • A theory of value
  • Theory of crisis Short discussion on circulation
  • Principles of neural networks

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Flat world or flat thought?

Flatteners
  • Internet
  • Personal computer
  • Open-source
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Outsourcing
  • Supply chains
  • Fall of the Soviet Union

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Flat world or flat thought?

Introduction

Flat world or flat thought?

Introduction

Flat world or flat thought?

Common language.

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Flat world or flat thought?

Common language.

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Flat world or flat thought?

Is the world flat?

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Flat world or flat thought?

We know it isn't.

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Flat world or flat thought?

We know it isn't.

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Flat world or flat thought?

Permission to pick and choose technical information.

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Flat world or flat thought?

Story of innovation

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Flat world or flat thought?

Opportunistic flattening of concepts.

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Flat world or flat thought?

There is much more to the problem than the framework of analysis.

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The role of technology in national development

  • Internet
  • Personal computer
  • Open-source
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Outsourcing
  • Supply chains
  • Fall of the Soviet Union

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The role of technology in national development

Flatteners create free markets.

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The role of technology in national development

Reheated comparative advantage.

Total units of wine: 2
Total units of cloth: 2

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The role of technology in national development

The operative logic of global development.

Services

Manufacturing

Agriculture

Introduction

The role of technology in national development

The operative logic of global development.

Services

Manufacturing

Agriculture

Least developed countries

Developing countries

Middle income trap

Developed countries

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The role of technology in national development

The operative logic of global development.

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The role of technology in national development

Is it a model?

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The role of technology in national development

Do you feel revolutionized?

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The role of technology in national development

Secular stagnation

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The role of technology in national development

Secular stagnation

Google Ngram results for "Secular Stagnation"

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The role of technology in national development

Cultural stagnation

"Imagine any record released in the past couple of years being beamed back in time to, say, 1995 and played on the radio. It’s hard to think that it will produce any jolt in the listeners." "On the contrary, what would be likely to shock our 1995 audience would be the very recognisability of the sounds: would music really have changed so little in the next 17 years?" "Contrast this with the rapid turnover of styles between the 1960s and the 90s: play a jungle record from 1993 to someone in 1989 and it would have sounded like something so new that it would have challenged them to rethink what music was, or could be."
-Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life (2014)

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The role of technology in national development

Cultural stagnation

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The role of technology in national development

Triumph or decline?

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