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A Possible Scenario of Annihilation

In: The Future of Work in Information Society

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  • Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki

    (National Institute of Telecommunication)

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An exponential growth, an avalanche-like development observed in the last 300 years of the history of humanity is a result of positive feedbacks, and each such positive feedback process ends with encountering a constraint. Such constraint might be the end of work, if not alleviated by essential reforms. A revolutionary way of the change is extremely dangerous today, because of amassment of nuclear weapons and the spread of knowledge how to construct them. The chapter presents the dangers of the revolutionary way in a possible scenario of annihilation of human intelligence on Earth. Such scenario is exceptional, but similar scenarios become today not only possible, also even more probable.

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  • Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki, 2016. "A Possible Scenario of Annihilation," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: The Future of Work in Information Society, chapter 0, pages 47-53, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbchp:978-3-319-33909-2_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33909-2_6
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