But I do not have the time to go back and do another degree on design. Try convincing people with money to shell out extra for someone with good design experience.
I guess once we have millions of customers we might have to think about it - but small companies without much resources its hard to justify spending a lot of resources on good design.
Check out Material Design by google - its been a lifesaver to me who is from a very technical background. Best part is with very little work you can really impress your bosses !
Bill Gates, Musk, etc are going to lose a fair bit of their power, prestige and wealth when someone does finally create super intelligence - Windows and Space X are great but those achievement will be dwarfed by whoever comes up with "superintelligence"
Ray Kurzweil's optimism comes from the fact that he will be unemployed if the govt bans A.I research.
And someone who works as a day journalist needs to make sure they meet the daily quote of generating clickbait traffic - its easiest to do it by writing something that is counter to whatever viewpoint is trendy this month.
Looking at history and how humanity dealt with technology - its fairly impossible to enforce any form of restriction on AI research.
We cannot stop >100,000 individuals from taking over an area larger than ireland in the middle east - good luck stopping the maths whiz with a pen.
I find it funny that we leave it to the economist to decide the fate of research.
I remember in uni I found EE topics much harder and boring then Software topics. Anything below C is a big nope. Verilog, VLSI, FPGA, anything to do with embedded IoT.
Yeah america wont survive if kids today stop valuing EE topic just due to some misguided economical models/interpretation.
The rockets that will land on mars wont be designed solely by software guys - it will require a lot of EE innovations - if america gives up then some other country will take its place.
Richard Hamming ( the person who came up with hamming distance ) has an interesting insight - based on the rate of sub-fields being created in mathematics - he concluded that by the year 2000 there would be 1000 different sub-fields for every mathematical subfield !
Do the people in power expect everyone to know everything ?
Knowledge is important - but society will stop working if everyone spends their lifetimes studying.
I read it in hacker news a while ago - the amount of new information we are introduced daily in 2015 was equivalent to what humans received in their lifetimes - for most of human history.
We need better methods to organize information - ( this is why google has its insane valuation - and no its not a bubble )
It should not take me 20 years to understand mathematics at the level of newton - how am I supposed to understand another 400 years of maths before I am homeless ?
Its a difficult question to answer but I think its a question my generation has to find an answer - and fast.
I am highly skeptical of anything coming out of Accenture. What do they even do in 2015 ?
Last time I heard - they operate on the margins of global inequality - outsourcing anything they can get their hands on to pay pennies on the dollar for the same job in developing countries.
"Our job as leaders is to create the right environment "
Nicely sums of their viewpoint - they do not want my generation to became leaders. Millennials are not there to enrich you - they are in the business of destroying your business model.
This law is so stupid that it turns out and becames really funny.
You might have american citizens who are the descendants of lincoln - but just because they forgot to pay some "money" - they are not americans anymore.
Punishment and vindication seems to be american way.
Read "Learn you a good haskell" - and practice the exercises in that book.
It helped me a lot to understand the practical side of functional programming.
For a book that maximizes the utility of functional programming in your everyday life I would recommend "functional javascript" by the famous author of underscore.js
But I do not have the time to go back and do another degree on design. Try convincing people with money to shell out extra for someone with good design experience.
I guess once we have millions of customers we might have to think about it - but small companies without much resources its hard to justify spending a lot of resources on good design.