Jacob Goldstein

In the long run, there’s only one way to raise living standards: come up with new technologies that let people create more and better stuff. This makes everyone richer – eventually. But in the short run those new technologies can put people out of work. At the dawn of the AI age, how do we balance these competing forces? Jacob Goldstein takes the long view, telling the stories of technological breakthroughs and social revolts from the past to explain what may lie ahead.