‘Scorpion’ Walter O’Brien warns of sting in the tail of tech

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Walter O’Brien, AKA Scorpion, the Irish hacker who inspired an eponymous TV show now onto its fourth season worldwide, predicts that the future of tech and automation is not going to be very rosy for most people. In an interview with Siliconrepublic.com, O’Brien echoed the sentiments of Microsoft founder Bill Gates – that machines that take jobs should be taxed – and opined that the only route for the future of humanity could be a universal wage. His work with Uniscape to create the Utopia project to enable rapid software localisation for Oracle, HP and Sun led to him establishing Scorpion Computer Services to compete for US government tender requests. Today he says that Scorpion Computer Services and its spin-out, Concierge UP, are focused on what he calls AFN or “any funded need” where, for at least $10,000, he helps people figure out ambitions such as how to run a football team, or solve problems in their lives or businesses. Factories like Tesla are nearly all robots.” O’Brien’s musings may sound alarmist, but in Trump’s America there are tent cities springing up in once affluent places such as Orange County, California, as the American dream becomes lost to legend.

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