{"id":77801,"date":"2018-04-14T05:50:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/google-futurist-and-director-of-engineering-basic-income-will-spread-worldwide-by-the-2030s"},"modified":"2018-04-14T05:50:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:50:49","slug":"google-futurist-and-director-of-engineering-basic-income-will-spread-worldwide-by-the-2030s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/google-futurist-and-director-of-engineering-basic-income-will-spread-worldwide-by-the-2030s","title":{"rendered":"Google futurist and director of engineering: Basic income will spread worldwide by the 2030s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-futurist-and-director-of-engineering-basic-income-will-spread-worldwide-by-the-2030s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basic income will be widespread by the 2030s, according to Google futurist and director of engineering Ray Kurzweil.<\/li>\n<li>Kurzweil is known for making seemingly wild predictions. In 2016, he predicted that by 2029, medical technology will add an extra year to human life expectancies on an annual basis.<\/li>\n<li>\u201d We\u2019re going to have more and more powerful technology to keep our physical bodies going. We\u2019ll think, \u2018Wow, back in 2018, people only had one body, and they couldn\u2019t back up their mind file,\u2019\u201d he said onstage at TED.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As it becomes apparent that artificial intelligence will replace ever-more jobs in the coming years, a growing number of politicians, nonprofits, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have started thinking about how we\u2019ll cope with a world in which not everyone can \u2014 or needs to \u2014 work.<\/p>\n<p>Basic income experiments, in which people are given a regular salary just to live, no strings attached, are <a href=http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/kenya-village-disproving-biggest-myth-about-basic-income-2017-12 > popping up<\/a> all over Europe, Africa, and North America.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/basic-income-worldwide-by-2030s-ray-kurzweil-2018-4\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/basic-income-worldwide-by-203...2018&#45;4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic income will be widespread by the 2030s, according to Google futurist and director of engineering Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil is known for making seemingly wild predictions. In 2016, he predicted that by 2029, medical technology will add an extra year to human life expectancies on an annual basis. \u201d We\u2019re going to have more and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,39,1878,2018,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-employment","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}