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People can't conceive of how fast this is coming. Look at just the last few years of AI. It's moved faster than we can legislate, faster than we can debate, faster than any institution was built to handle. And that's the slow part. It only accelerates from here. That's a huge elephant in the room. Shifts this big would normally go through a democratic process. People debate it, it works its way through… But that takes decades. And we don't have decades. When the ground moves this fast and process can't keep up, governments reach for whatever knob they have. And control tends to get more centralised, not because anyone wants it, but because the democratic process simply isn't fast enough to catch what's coming. This is the part of the Economic Singularity nobody wants to look at. It isn't just markets and machines moving to a speed we can't follow. It's our whole system of governing arriving too late. I sat down with @PeterDiamandis and @salimismail to go over how the next few years play out. As ever, please enjoy. This is one of the hardest edges of the economic singularity. Full framework in the article I wrote this week: https://t.co/t2ufisdHPI