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Behind the screens: the crystals that flow like rain down a windowpane

Futurum

From climate science and healthcare to business and robotics, a degree in physics can take you just about anywhere. Even if you don’t end up working in research, a mathematics degree is a fantastic asset for working in so many industries, including finance and engineering,” says Joseph. I love the wide applicability of physics.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

But there’s a missing piece of technology here: there isn’t yet good general-purpose robotics (as there is general-purpose computing), and we humans still have the edge in dexterity, mechanical adaptability, etc. We might imagine robots building everything, AIs figuring everything out, etc. There’s only so much real estate.

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