Daniel Susskind: Difference between revisions

{{g}}Son of perma-doom-prophet for the legal industry, Professor {{author|Richard Susskind}}. Has spent most of his life advising politicians, listening to academics, and then being one, so it should not come as a surprise that his expostulations on the future of the world — [[Technological unemployment|that machines will take over and we’re all going to be sharecropped for battery acid]] — is impressive in its theoretical gusto, but drastically short of basic common sense. Doubtless this all makes his dad — very much of the same intellectual stripe — proud: it is an interesting validation for the theory that ideas involve by infecting host minds and regenerating through some kind of Lamarckian [[evolution]] though. There seem to be only two people on the planet prepared to make serious arguments to this effect (many will post wilfully on LinkedIn, of course) and, if that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they happen to be father and son, would be quite the improbable coincidence.