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Lessons from the 1848 Revolutions for Today’s AI-Driven World

This week’s Wealth Matters Weekend post was inspired by a session I had sitting in on a history class lesson taught at our son’s classical school this past Wednesday on a day they call “17 Again” which invites parents to come join the High School classes as if they were a peer with the students. The teacher-student discourse on this subject matter was insightfully brilliant and got me thinking about how to apply these lessons to our perspective today as we seek to maintain our own mental health and productive perspectives on the events of today.

As we stand at the precipice of yet another unprecedented technological revolution in humanity’s history, one driven this time by the convergence of AI, blockchain, quantum computing, and other exponential technologies, it is worth remembering the past.

Technological change is not new; revolutions of all kinds have come and gone, each leaving lasting impacts on societies, economies, and individuals. Each time we have experienced these major shif…