Mike Malone, many would say the business journalist, not just for the broad section of society,

but really for Silicon Valley, covered it for many years. The Autonomous Revolution is new book

coming out February 18th, 2020 talks about a lot of things. Is blockchain the answer moving forward

for things that need to be privatized? Secondly, should corporate taxes come down? How do we tax

individual people? Should people be

unemployed, actually, if they don't lead to increased productivity in their job roles? And if so,

what does the economic model look like if productivity gains continue to increase but unemployment

and more people are unemployed? Is UBI the answer?

Hello, everyone. My guest today is Mike Malone. He was the world's first daily high-tech reporter, and he remains one of Silicon Valley's best-known journalists. He's the author and co-author of nearly 30 books, including the Virtual Corporation, with William David Al. Now working on a new book. We're going to jump into that today. Mike, you ready to take us to the top? Let's go. All right, let's not bury the lead here.

What's the title of the book and what do you believe in this book that you think is going to cause a lot of controversy?

Okay, it's called the Autonomous Revolution.

And the core theme of it is what we think is going on right now is not an evolutionary change.

The sense that everything's not quite working quite right suggests something much, much bigger

that we haven't seen very often in human history, and that is a fundamental phase shift in

society and culture, driven by technology.

And the implications of that are enormous including for all of your

startup CEOs out there well so let me dive into this a bit right so so you have significantly

more wisdom in the majority of us right financial management uh recognize your your uh your book on bill

and dave as one of the best biographies ever for business. So you've seen a lot of trends.

So here's a question I have for you.

I just want to jump right into it.

You know, Trump and a lot of politicians, whether it's Republican or Democratic, will brag about

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