Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome futurist Alvis Brigis back to FastForward Radio to discuss how accelerating technological development (particularly automation) is driving economic change. Will these transformations bring about greater prosperity? Will they lead to the end of employment as we know it?

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About our guest

Alvis Brigis is writer, video producer and social media entrepreneur focused on the human side of accelerating change.  He's worked extensively in reality and documentary television, co-founded future portal MemeBox.com and serves on the board of the Acceleration Studies Foundation.  Alvis blogs about the presnet day "human creativity explosion", which he sees as an autocatalytic component of broader acceleration, and near-term social change at socialnode.com.  He's currently based in balmy Mountain View, CA as well as snowy Elka Park, NY.