TED2017: The future you 4/20/17, 12:07 PM Martin Ford Futurist ' : 8 Martin Ford imagines what the accelerating progress in robotics and artificial intelligence may mean for the economy, job market and > eS ' society of the future. a. Martin Ford was one of the first analysts to write compellingly about the future of work and economies in the face of the growing rn automation of everything. He sketches a future that's radically reshaped not just by robots but by the loss of the income-distributing power of human jobs. How will our economic systems need to adapt? He's the author of two books: Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (winner of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award ) and Zhe Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future, and he's the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm. He has written about future technology and its implications for the New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review and The Financial Times. mfordfuture.com @MFordFuture r ae Jack Conte 7 Musician, entrepreneur . \ = a Pt With his membership platform Patreon, YouTube star Jack Conte may have solved a perennial problem of content creators -- getting paid ‘| 1 for digital media. - ce 4 ii, ¢ As a solo artist and member of folk-rock duo Pomplamoose, Jack Conte garnered millions of views for his offbeat “video songs,” including erie Das ) fo his breakout hit “Yeah Yeah Yeah” and “Pedals,” a robotic tour-de-force with a set that duplicates the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. ray 4 A igs \\ \ 4’ | Despite his success, Conte noted the disconnect between page views and revenue, and realized that if you’re a widely viewed artist and you — - aren’t making money, “that’s not your fault -- it’s technology’s fault.” His solution is Patreon: a membership platform built on recurring payments from patrons to support creatives with ongoin