{"id":99514,"date":"2019-12-09T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T18:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/futurist-predicts-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it"},"modified":"2019-12-09T10:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T18:42:38","slug":"futurist-predicts-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/futurist-predicts-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","title":{"rendered":"Futurist Predicts \u201cThe End of the World as We Know It\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/futurist-predicts-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As jobs are automated out of existence, the division between the very wealthy and the very poor will grow \u2014 and any notion of a comfortable middle class will vanish.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Roey Tzezana, a future studies researcher at Israel\u2019s Tel Aviv University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/business\/economy-finance\/.premium-futurist-sees-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-for-average-person-1.8227728\">according to <em>Haaretz<\/em><\/a>. That stands in contrast to the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/aoc-automation-enjoying-world\">common argument<\/a> that new jobs will emerge as others vanish, painting a grim picture for the workforce and global economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As jobs are automated out of existence, the division between the very wealthy and the very poor will grow \u2014 and any notion of a comfortable middle class will vanish. That\u2019s according to Roey Tzezana, a future studies researcher at Israel\u2019s Tel Aviv University, according to Haaretz. That stands in contrast to the common argument [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99514","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}