How To Fix The Future
summary
Argues that power concentrates in a few giants (Google, Facebook, Amazon), causing surveillance, manipulation and startup exclusion; cites job-creation decline (1980s 8%, 1990s 4%, 2000s 0.4%) and warns of automation replacing work and exotic harms like autonomous weapons and child-like sex robots and printed eyes by 2027. Proposals: open API and data ownership so individuals port data, municipal ownership of fiber as in Sweden (two‑thirds of cities), plain‑English half‑page terms, and an unconditional basic income to redistribute robot‑created wealth.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:45Monopolization
- 4:27Verticalization of control
- 6:15Advertising centric model
- 7:42Forced labor
- 9:01Technology replacing jobs
- 9:59Ethical challenges
- 11:25Breaking down monopolies
- 12:57The Swedish model
- 17:56Conclusion
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