• By 2025, an anti-tech underground will develop. This movement will focus on disrupting/attacking high tech in business. The roots will be in a displaced workforce focusing on automation, robotics, and AI.
  • This movement will begin with the cancellation of tech jobs. Programmers, analysts, project managers will be the target of increasing lay-offs.
  • In the 1990’s and 2000’s a larger number of viruses were created in old Eastern Block countries. This was due to the high unemployment of computer programmers.

Leading indicators

  • Continued layoffs and downsizing in high tech workforce particularly due to automation.
  • Continued flattening of the labor pyramid where top 1% sits atop a very large base.
  • Shortages in the supply chain due to technical difficulties (not raw goods related)

Trends

  • Anti-technology movements, like the Luddites,  have been around for centuries.
  • What fuels them is profiteering from the upper economic classes. The lower classes feeling that they are expendable.
  • Workers are without alternative training or other social safety nets.

Recommendations

  • Incentivized worker training and education programs either or by government agencies or businesses.

Universal income and/or other benefits.

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