Technology really has made great leaps and bounds in the past 16 years, nowhere more clearly than AI. Failing to foresee the smartphone is an oversight about the progress of technology. Plan B – geoengineering – is neither optimistic nor pessimistic about the future of humanity, says Holly Jean Buck, the author of After Geoengineering. Photograph: triloks/Getty ImagesThere is another possibility: that technology really does save the day, and then some. If it does, every other prediction we could make is moot, and this story, and perhaps humanity as we know it, will be forgotten.

Source: The Guardian January 03, 2020 06:00 UTC