Showing posts with label Fourth Industrial Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fourth Industrial Revolution. Show all posts

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Manufacturing the Future: Why America’s Tech Revolution Must Begin at Home

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The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

Manufacturing the Future: Why America’s Tech Revolution Must Begin at Home

The convergence of AI, robotics, 3D printing, and materials science is reshaping manufacturing at an unprecedented pace. It promises a world where factories think, machines learn, and supply chains are hyper-localized and resilient. But despite the breathtaking potential of these technologies, the benefits won’t materialize on their own—not unless the U.S. fundamentally retools its economic, social, and political frameworks.

A Glimpse Into Tomorrow’s Manufacturing

Imagine factories where robots don’t just follow instructions—they collaborate, learn, and optimize. AI systems that predict demand, automate logistics, and adjust designs in real-time. 3D printing that produces complex structures on demand, reducing waste and slashing costs. Materials science—accelerated by discoveries in space environments—unlocks lighter, stronger, smarter materials for everything from buildings to biotech.

This isn’t science fiction. It’s already happening in pockets across the globe. Companies are exploring printable organs, AI-powered textile production, and zero-gravity metallurgy that can’t be replicated on Earth. The frontier industries of tomorrow—quantum hardware, modular green housing, biomanufacturing, and orbital construction—are within reach.

But the U.S. risks missing the bus.

The Bottleneck: America's Social and Economic Stalemate

Technological progress without inclusive prosperity is a broken promise. America today is a study in extremes: world-leading innovation coexisting with crumbling infrastructure, astronomical wealth alongside grinding poverty. The rise in productivity that AI and automation promise will not translate into mass prosperity if gains continue to be captured by the top 1%.

As with the Industrial Revolution, the Digital Revolution, and now the AI Revolution, productivity gains must be shared—or they will destabilize. Without serious political will to address inequality, automation will replace workers rather than uplift them. Without universal access to education, training, and health care, the workforce won’t be ready to meet the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Without rethinking tax policy and social safety nets, capital will become even more concentrated.

A New Social Contract for a New Industrial Age

To truly unleash the potential of this manufacturing renaissance, America must:

  • Modernize education to focus on lifelong learning, STEM, and creative thinking.

  • Guarantee basic needs—health care, housing, nutrition—so people are free to learn, invent, and contribute.

  • Invest in regional innovation hubs, bringing advanced manufacturing to rust belt cities and rural communities.

  • Reform taxation and ownership models to spread the gains of automation and AI across society.

  • Encourage public-private partnerships for moonshot projects in energy, biotech, and space manufacturing.

The Stakes Are Existential

Just as climate change threatens the planet, inequality threatens the cohesion of society. An America where a handful build the future while millions are left behind is not sustainable. But an America that couples technological ambition with bold social reform can lead the world—not just in innovation, but in dignity and shared progress.

The factories of the future may hum with robotic arms and quantum processors, but without a just foundation, they’ll produce more division than prosperity. It’s not just about manufacturing smarter—it’s about building a society wise enough to wield that power for all.

The future is being built. The question is: Who is it being built for?

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Universal Basic Income (aka Freedom Dividend) Is Not Free Money



Somebody built the road in front of your house. You did not. Is that a "free" road? Does that road make you lazy? Is that road bad karma?

The road is infrastructure. For most people that is easy to grasp because it is physical, it is there. You see it.

Education and health are also infrastructures. But they are less concrete. You can't build a knowledge economy unless you make massive investments in education and health.

UBI, Universal Basic Income, is similarly infrastructure. It is just like the road. Before the UBI, poverty starts at zero. When you are poor, you are desperate. With UBI, you are still poor. But now poverty starts at 12,000 dollars as per the Andrew Yang proposal in circulation right now. You are no longer desperate. For a couple, that is 24K a year. That is not luxury income, but at least you can hope to get by.

But that's a lot of money in aggregate. It comes to trillions of dollars.

That is the thing.

(1) The income and wealth gap between the richest and the poorest is too wide, in this country as well as globally. That wide gap is not healthy for democracy. It is not healthy for the market economy. In fact, left to its own devices, that gap will keep getting wider and wider until there is a collapse of civilization. This is existential. And so a wealth tax makes sense. Elizabeth Warren is taking the lead on this one. She proposes that you pay two cents for every dollar you have above 50 million.

(2) Andrew Yang talks about a VAT, Value Added Tax, hardly an original idea. Most countries already have it. Instead of taxing income or wealth, you tax every business transaction, not just between companies and consumers, but also between companies. B2B as well as B2C.

(3) All the money that the government is already giving out to people comes to something like almost two trillion. But now, instead of making people fill out forms and harass them and humiliate them, you just give it to them. Cuts out a lot of red tape. Slims down the bureaucracy. Republicans should love this.

(4) My personal favorite that I don't see anyone on the campaign trail talk about is that all data generated by one person is that person's own personal oil well. Data is the oil. Companies may collect it, but they may not own it. Individuals own their data. This data is lucrative enough that it can fund the UBI for all humanity. But I am not at all opposed to the first three.

Humanity is about to enter an Age Of Abundance, mostly technology-driven.

Just like the industrial revolution brought to an end numerous jobs in agriculture, the fourth industrial revolution is about to wipe out sector after sector of jobs. Handled well, we all can be better off. We could see interesting developments like shorter work weeks, longer vacations, people spending more time with family and friends.

I see numerous new jobs being created. People will have their UBI, that might start at 1K a month, but will gradually go up. On top of that, they will have jobs that pay them another 50K or 100K or 200K. These will be jobs that we have not even begun to imagine yet.

Just like a taxi driver does not have to build a car, and so can just focus on driving, think of robots and Artificial Intelligence as the new car. You can always do a value add on top of that.

People having more time for worship is not a bad idea. People having more time to spend with their parents, with their children is not a bad idea. There are tremendous unmet needs in education and health. New service sector jobs will get created. Art will flourish like never before. There will be a music and movies boom. People will travel more and there will be a greater cross-cultural understanding.

UBI is just basic infrastructure for the fourth industrial revolution.

Yang Warren 2020

Nobody is saying American Basic Income (ABI) though. UBI means universal. It can only work if it covers all humanity. It can be rolled out in stages.







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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

I Wish The 2016 Race Were Laser Focused On The Fourth Industrial Revolution

The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production. Now a Fourth Industrial Revolution is building on the Third, the digital revolution that has been occurring since the middle of the last century. It is characterized by a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres. ....... There are three reasons why today’s transformations represent not merely a prolongation of the Third Industrial Revolution but rather the arrival of a Fourth and distinct one: velocity, scope, and systems impact. The speed of current breakthroughs has no historical precedent. When compared with previous industrial revolutions, the Fourth is evolving at an exponential rather than a linear pace. Moreover, it is disrupting almost every industry in every country. And the breadth and depth of these changes herald the transformation of entire systems of production, management, and governance.
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