Culture of Change Ep. 166: WALL-E, Buy n Large & the Dystopia vs. Golden Age Debate
Ashe in America brings her oldest son, Caleb, onto Culture of Change for the first time to settle a family argument: are we headed for a golden age or a dystopia? Caleb takes the doomer side, Ashe plays the realist. Ashe walks through McKinsey's 2026 technology outlook, from physical AI and dark factories to data centers outrunning the power grid, and asks what we trade away for convenience. Caleb counters that the top of the pyramid still owns the tools, and explains how all those CAPTCHAs quietly trained self-driving cars. Then it's WALL-E: the lost Buy n Large ads, a corporation that…
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