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Technology will be powerful by a magnitude in the future allowing for tremendous solutions in areas such as genetics & health; it will help us find a solution to many of our problems. At odds to this trend however is growing complexity and lack of predictability that the future brings, with inherent systemic risk to our interconnected globe. Risks such as the spread of pandemic viruses or the impact of the stock market crash in an interconnected global economy. And so, we will have to weave through these challenges our future brings very carefully.
computer science *consciousness 