Economic Renaissance In the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Foreword

Apek Mulay has edited an intriguing book. It draws on the foundational work of Indian mystic, macro-historian, and philosopher, Shrii P.R. Sarkar. Almost 60 years ago, Sarkar began the process of envisioning and creating a world after communism and capitalism. Communism has largely disappeared as a vision of the future, while crony capitalism appears to be if not at its end, certainly in its dying stages as inequity continues to increase within nations and between nations. Sarkar imagined a world with far greater efficiency, far greater productivity, far less inequality, living with nature and enhanced by amazing new technologies—“mind in technology,” if you will—what we know today as the beginning of artificial intelligence (AI). This ...