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{{g}}Stiffen your sinews if you hear this one. | {{g}}Stiffen your sinews if you hear this one. | ||
A laundry list of times everyone agreed it was different, but it wasn’t: | |||
*The elimination of boom and bust — © Gordon Brown, April 2000. | |||
*How you value businesses without reference to cashflow or profitability — © every [[investment banker]] ever, in the run-up to the [[dotcom bust]] in 2000 | |||
*We have efficiently allocated risk to those best placed to bear it through [[credit derivatives]] — © every [[investment banker]] ever, in the run-up to the [[global financial crisis]], 2004-8 | |||
*Mark-to-market accounting of future income streams in a market that doesn’t exist yet is sensible — © [[Arthur Andersen]]<ref>Who? Ed.</ref> [[Jeff Skilling]] and the crazy gang at [[Enron]], continually up to October 2001 | |||
*The [[Singularity]] is definitely going to happen, and the universe will wake up, rewriting the laws of physics as we know them etc. © {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}, 2005. | |||
*[[Software is eating the world]]: © Marc Andreessen, 2009 | |||
*The machines are going to take over, breed us in slimy pods as battery fuel for Skynet which the machines will need because um they just will. Look! [[Chess]]-playing supercomputers! —© {{author|Daniel Susskind}}, {{br|A World Without Work}} | |||
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*[[The dog in the night time]] | *[[The dog in the night time]] | ||
*[[Technological unemployment]] | *[[Technological unemployment]] |