Prominent basic income advocate Scott Santens, along with Mic tech reporter Jack Smith IV (who has written in support of basic income as a response to automation), will be presenting at Collision 2016, held in New Orleans from April 26-28.
Collision, developed by the creators of Web Summit, has been described as “America’s fastest growing tech conference.” As the conference website states, “In two years, Collision has grown to over 7,500 attendees from more than 50 countries. Attendees include CEOs of both the world’s fastest growing startups and the world’s largest companies, alongside leading investors and media.”
Santens and Smith will be “discussing the pros and cons in the basic income debate” on Wednesday, April 27, at 1:30pm Central Time. (See the event description here.)
The conference will be streamed live on the official website.
Be sure to tune in on Wednesday when basic income takes the stage at this major, multi-national event!
POSTSCRIPT: If you missed viewing the event live, you can also watch a recording of Santens’ interview at Collision on YouTube.
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Maybe l am hyperventilating to some extent but wondering if it is exaggerating to suggest that this idea is the social equivalent of splitting the atom. ( in the chain reaction and creative sense rather than the destitute sense) or discovering penicillin or both in terms of changing society forever.
Though I recognize that it does not present as a panacea to all our ills it would go a long way to addressing them.
Apologies-in the above comment -destitute should read destructive- predictive text – tut! tut!