RE: The Endless Conversation: For my daughter (part three of six)
No matter how safe our vehicles are and carefully we drive, if someone in the oncoming lane swerves to hit us, there is not much that can be done
Well this will probably get less likely as driver-less cars become more popular haha
Having 100% security of something is impossible, but you mentioned that technology will destroy jobs, and that is certainly the case, but it will also create new jobs, and not only that, having a high technological level is the only thing that little by little can really increase the level of security we have, the more advanced our technology, the better the tools to handle all kind of problems so they don't affect us.
For example, you mentioned a meteorite, well the only way for us to survive a cosmic disaster like that, would be using technological means.
So perhaps one day, in the very far future, we will have close to absolute security (if technology keeps advancing exponentially as it is now)
Approaching security...
Some new jobs but for the most part, many who lose their jobs will be unsuitable for retraining for these kinds.
Potentially. It is the same for AI as eventually it keeps advancing until it is conscious and then exponentially until it outgrows us all.
The only human security is to be so completely and utterly unattached to anything else, that no matter what happens, it does not matter at all as in that case, there really is nothing of value to lose. :)
I was also going to mention competitive cognitive artefacts and loss of skills through technological advancement until one do we actually need them yada yada.