🎦🤖 'Jurassic Park's' surprising lesson about AI, automation, and jobs

Market capitalism finds a way

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,

Phil Tippett thought he was extinct. When Steven Spielberg decided Jurassic Park's dinosaurs would be computer-generated rather than stop-motion in 1991 (that film’s sixth sequel, Jurassic World Rebirth, came out this week), the effects wizard who'd animated the AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back declared his obsolescence.

Instead, Tippett won an Oscar supervising Spielberg’s digital dinosaurs. His Berkeley-based studio's evolution from puppets to pixels illustrates a timeless economic truth: Technological disruption creates as well as destroys, and it’s a good bet that the next wave of innovation will amply reward those nimble and open-minded enough to adapt.