2025: A Race Odyssey. Leadership in the era of AI

Don Olcott, Jr.

2025: A Race Odyssey. Leadership in the era of AI

The 20th century could be seen as a race between two versions of man-made hell – the jackbooted state totalitarianism of Orwell’s 1984, and the hedonistic ersatz paradise of Huxley’s Brave New World, where absolutely everything is a consumer good and human beings are engineered to be happy.

Margaret Atwood, 2007

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