Sam Altman is Super Smart — Who Knew? ;-)

The future of the human race is addressed by Sam Altman this week. A must-read edition of the newsletter

That Was The Week 2021, #10

By Keith Teare • Issue #10 • View online

Content

• Automation, AI and, Universal Income
• Interactive Real-Time Streams — The Future is Now
• Nation-States, Money and, Tech
• Gossip of the Week
• Startup of the Week: Stripe
• Tweet of the Week: Clubhouse Will Fail

Editorial

This week’s That Was The Week is proof of the aphorism that “less is more”. We have way fewer curated articles but they are full of weighty and thought-provoking ideas.

Leading the way is Sam Altman’s Moore’s Law for Everything essay. Inspired, or perhaps provoked by, his work at OpenAI, Altman contemplates the near future when AI and robotics have reduced the price of labor for most things to zero. This is a likely future that we have talked…