40: Rage against the machine

We're failing to design equitable systems. Will machines be better or worse?

People are turning against the status quo, increasingly enraged by bureaucracy, lack of accountability, and a slow rate of social progress. In many ways our social machinery, as it stands, does not serve the man (or woman) in the street.

There is a quaint irony that the biggest fear of esteemed scientists and thinkers in our generation regarding the pote…