By Chuck Collins
Over the last week we’ve been mourning the loss of one of the greatest minds of our time. The world knew Stephen Hawking primarily for his research on the cosmos, but his brilliance extended to our daily existence here on Earth as well. Hawking challenged war and oppression, advocated for universal health care, and fought inequality at every opportunity.
“Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution,” Hawking, for instance, warned when asked about artificial intelligence.
“With resources increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few,” Hawking added after the voting that gave us Brexit and Donald Trump, “we are going to have to learn to share far more than at present.”
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