Will AI make everyone unemployed?

What is a revolution? You might be tempted to define it as the disruption of the status quo, to say that revolutions break down or destroy something that exists paving the way for something new to take its place. The problem with that definition is that it doesn't hold true when you actually look at human history. Innovation leads to new destinations, new orders, and new paradigms, revolutions do not. A revolution both in the sociological sense and in the geometric sense is basically the traversal of a circle from one point back to itself.

Revolutions throughout history have taken order in society, disrupted it, and rather than replacing it or reforming it, they ultimately return society back to that point of order - in other words revolutions, far from changing society, actually reinforce the behavioural patterns that have become entrenched.

Time is running out

The television as we know it today was invented in 1923 by John Logie Baird, his invention iterated and combined elements of existing technology and augmented them with novel elements. After a series of demonstrations and refinements to the technology, growing public adoption, and regulatory disputes, The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was established - the exact date varies depending on where you begin counting, technically the organisation was founded in 1922 as a company rather than a corporation and covered other forms of broadcasting namely radio, but it eventually became a public body in 1927, the first public television broadcaster, now the oldest in the world.

Fast forward 98 years and we are approaching the centennial of the BBC, there are only a few thousand people still alive in the UK today who are older than the BBC - this is important to note because time is running out.