The Economy of Tomorrow | AI Revolution | Megacities | Documentary

The Economy of Tomorrow - The future is uncertain and full of challenges. How do we rescue our cities and tackle inequalities? How do we deal with an aging future and bridging the gender gap? It's time for some forward thinking.

The Economy of Tomorrow (2016)
Stars: Dafydd Rees, Alastair Bates
Genres: Documentary, News

0:00 March of the Machines

The show asks how will the AI revolution change the world? Part one features Jeremy Kahn, Bloomberg Tech Reporter, Mike McDonough Global Chief Economist at Bloomberg Intellligence and Gideon Mann, Head of Data Science at Bloombeg, Part Two features Martin Ford, Author of Rise of the Robots. Part Three features how AI could soon be changing healthcare.

23:16 Growing Pains

This programme asks how can we harness the economic potential of megacities? Part 1 features Bloomberg experts featured include James Hertling of Bloomberg News, Mike McDonough Global Chief Economist of Bloomberg Intelligence. Part 2 features urban activist Alessandra Orofino who's based in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Part 3 examines the urban environment in Lagos, Nigeria and features the floating village of Makoko and the EkoAtlantic project.

45:45 Smashing the Glass Ceiling

In this episode, we'll ask what's preventing women from closing the gender gap in the world of work?

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[moezar]

As someone who grew up with the internet first coming to the public space its absolutely boggling the differences in just 20 years.

[vanessaward]

Age old quote: "The road to hell is often paved with good intentions."

Just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should do something.

[farinshore]

What i don't understand is why these billionaires believe that a suddenly impoverished population will be cooperative?

[roxannebrown]

This film was published in 2016. The date needs to be included in the description. Things are moving so fast that the date for these big claims matters.

[NoName-ojpl]

It's absolute insane this documentary already has things that are "out of date"

[emmanuelacha]

I agree with the authors that African cities especially the Nigerian cities of Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Enugu, Abuja, Kano and the rest are in urgent NEED to address their infrastructural deficits/challenges. There's no way the cities of tomorrow can be realized in these regions without public and private agenda and actions to address these critical challenges. The young people are eager to drive the future they want but are being constrained by these existing challenges. We also need international support to achieve this task

[SoulToolsPoetry]

I am currently conducting my graduate research on the topic "The role of ICTs and Data Engineering on achieving substantial economic growth in West Aftica. This documentary has brought me new ideas!! Thanks🙌🏼

[Timi]

Great documentary. For consequential thinking, if solving a problem will lead to even a bigger problem that you don't even know the solution for yet, why not leave the problem be or better still find a better solution? When machines rake up the productivity so high, is it the jobless unemployed broke people that will buy the products being sold by companies and made by machines? That's what has got us here in the first place. When science isn't balanced by ethics.

[dzeyo]

the big 'elephant in the room' problem of displacing a large percentage of workers with machines is - those workers are also the consumers .. so these fancy machines make everything that nobody can buy lol ... thats brilliant corporate planning right there ..

[Pion.]

Amazing documentary! One of the best I have ever seen. The content, the coverage, the narration, the footage, the insights, everything. Thank you for this.

[altdoom]

And what happens in a power outage? This is something that is left out of all these AI future projections.

[lim]

"March of the Machines" is a captivating journey into the future of AI, leaving me both fascinated and optimistic about the possibilities. "Growing Pains" offers profound insights into megacities, and "Smashing the Glass Ceiling" is a crucial discussion. Thank you for these eye-opening documentaries!

[ruchisharma]

I watched Moconomy's documentary on System of Money and then started watching this one! It does feel like a dystopian world! I hate the feeling of powerlessness to fight high scale stupidity that ignores some of these known ill consequences and unintended consequences! These are paradigm shifting things that would also leave us locked-in to the new tech! I wonder how common people that are affected with such decisions in silos turn around the power structures!??!

[MountainGirlwIPA]

brought tears to my eyes - almost identical to the choices I made during and after Covid. I so appreciate her story. thank you ❤

[MichaelWilliamsWMA]

Regarding equity; in the 1960s USA, 90% of the wealth was controlled by women, through the family budget. They made the purchasing decision on what home or car to buy and did all the shopping. Some consider shopping as therapy. Every once in a while I come across a male that says he wears the pants in the family, I look across the desk and ask "who bought the pants"? But a feminist movement felt they didn't have equity so they pushed for more, and divorce was a result, and now they have 50% of the purchasing power in a large part of the USA. BTW Shoppers have the power, not the producers/stores/men. Men work long hours, and dangerous jobs & become soldiers because they love their wives/family. Women have developed communities and are wonderful nurturers.

[daymajor]

We keep educating/training people for today’s jobs rather than the jobs of tomorrow. That’s why every generation experiences massive job losses to tech. Education is full of what to do to GET a job in the present not what to do to CREATE jobs in future.

[jamshaidmohsin]

You have deviated, in middle, from issue of, Urbanziation to Gender Bias. Still very appreciable & useful.
Concept of Paternity Leaves in one of takeaways amongst many :)

[rudomeister]

Im developing software with AI 5-6 hours a day, and the obstacles with the GPT-4 model as an example, a dn with time, understanding that this "thing" doesent have a any storage capacity, and at the same time knows so much, it's remarkable. It defines how you are talking to it to get the answers you seek. And it's getting better and more human-like every month. Now Im working on creating market sentiment evaluatory authority thru hiarky network of GPT models, where large tasks are splitted apart and thrown down the hiarky to the lower layers of GPT models, who get information makes an easy analysis, gives it a score, and goes up one level to their supervisor who get to put together their layer of authority, until the the top, and the same pieces who got sliced up are put toghether full of information and evaluations to the last authority in the chain, and the choice will be made. AI is amazing. It's the perfect tool.

[siquepasa]

The first part (AI) was very well done.

[teamhodge]

The simpler times before all this tech, was much better. More wholesome and connected to nature.