Not on the lists at all are the implications and possible responses to emerging developments in artificial intelligence and bioengineering. Barely on the list are other critical concerns like developing a response to advancing technologies in a global economy. Far down on the list are critical long-term concerns like climate change, worsening mal-distribution of wealth and power, economic segregation, and political reform to restore some semblance of democratic control.
Mainly, voters express concern about their lives, now, although ginned-up concerns from right-wing propaganda machines also make the lists. The top concerns are predictable: the current economy, health care, maybe the natural environment, and lately in the United States, immigration and trade.
KEY WORDS: CLIMATE CHANGE, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, GLOBAL ECONOMY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BIOENGINEERING, **INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, ENLIGHTENMENT, PROGRESSĮvery election cycle in the United States, public opinion polling tells us what is foremost on voters’ minds. **ABSTRACT: Paul LaClair reviews and interconnects two books: Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.
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