This is not so much about the Trump administration as much as where I see the intersect of technology and human behavior.
Over the past 20 years we have seen the rise of "strongmen" like Putin and Erdogan, as well as instances in the FSU (former soviet union states like Azerbaijan, Armenia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan) where the leadership is entrenched and will not release political control. With the relentless attacks on the the American political system, and our rule of law at stake, it's a matter of time before we, probably not even noticing it, lose our voice in the political process all together.
My vision is that we will automate, as everyone expects, services like HR, legal, and medical, as well as a lot of governmental services, financial, etc. I already expect that big companies that have big data are using that resource to let AI decide who the best potential job candidates are in HR (can you imagine Google and FB aren't already doing this?), what the best arguments are to present to a certain judge or jurisdiction, what's happening in your MRI scan, etc. The services will be cheaper because computers are doing the work. The people who own the computers will make the money. The doctors, lawyers, HR people, etc will be out of work or transitioned.
And for the most part, people will be told that the machines are unbiased. And in many industries they will indeed be, at first.
But imagine, if you will, that the HR machines have levels of administration rights, and the person at the top, who seems like a decent guy, is actually Vladimir Putin in disguise (crazy hypothetical, right?), and he has managed to diminish the safeguards on the HR system, and commands the program to only seek out applicants who fit his ethos, and have amazing bodies, and not older than 27. He would be able to manage people out of financial stability, and in effect disenfranchise them, while increasing the social standing of idiots who support him.
I guess, TL;DR is that I see people like Zuckerberg and I think he's pretty crooked. I don't trust him at the top. I see the way Larry Page interacted with Silicon Valley counterparts, and I see a guy who is shadowy, especially in the wake of the contract with DoD for Project Maven. I think our machines are evolving at a rate that is beyond the maturity of the human race, and this could be what truly opens the dimensional portal into Mordor.
Over the past 20 years we have seen the rise of "strongmen" like Putin and Erdogan, as well as instances in the FSU (former soviet union states like Azerbaijan, Armenia, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan) where the leadership is entrenched and will not release political control. With the relentless attacks on the the American political system, and our rule of law at stake, it's a matter of time before we, probably not even noticing it, lose our voice in the political process all together.
My vision is that we will automate, as everyone expects, services like HR, legal, and medical, as well as a lot of governmental services, financial, etc. I already expect that big companies that have big data are using that resource to let AI decide who the best potential job candidates are in HR (can you imagine Google and FB aren't already doing this?), what the best arguments are to present to a certain judge or jurisdiction, what's happening in your MRI scan, etc. The services will be cheaper because computers are doing the work. The people who own the computers will make the money. The doctors, lawyers, HR people, etc will be out of work or transitioned.
And for the most part, people will be told that the machines are unbiased. And in many industries they will indeed be, at first.
But imagine, if you will, that the HR machines have levels of administration rights, and the person at the top, who seems like a decent guy, is actually Vladimir Putin in disguise (crazy hypothetical, right?), and he has managed to diminish the safeguards on the HR system, and commands the program to only seek out applicants who fit his ethos, and have amazing bodies, and not older than 27. He would be able to manage people out of financial stability, and in effect disenfranchise them, while increasing the social standing of idiots who support him.
I guess, TL;DR is that I see people like Zuckerberg and I think he's pretty crooked. I don't trust him at the top. I see the way Larry Page interacted with Silicon Valley counterparts, and I see a guy who is shadowy, especially in the wake of the contract with DoD for Project Maven. I think our machines are evolving at a rate that is beyond the maturity of the human race, and this could be what truly opens the dimensional portal into Mordor.