Bill Sniffin: This Futurist Thinks Wyoming Could Thrive In An AI-Robotic Future

Futurist Jeff Wacker suggests that Wyoming is well-positioned for future changes due to five key reasons: access to energy resources, lack of large problems typically associated with big cities, conservative, grounded, and realistic population mindset, innovation and problem-solving traditions, and wide open spaces.
Wacker predicts that artificial intelligence and robots will dominate the workplace and that many jobs will be replaced sooner than expected, leading to the possibility of universal basic income.
He speculates on the future singularity, when AI catches up to human intelligence around 2030, and describes a world where decisions happen in cyber time, much faster than we can understand, creating potential dangers.
Wacker believes that Wyoming’s slower pace and less complexity could serve as an advantage in a rapidly changing world where the rate of decision making accelerates beyond human comprehension.
Ultimately, the future is already here, but it depends on where one lives; Wyoming’s steadier, human-time-based reality contrasts sharply with the fast, crowded, digital environment of places like Dallas.

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