Facebook Antonio Garcia Martinez is pictured in this photo from Facebook.

From Donald Trump to Brexit, the world is becoming a more unstable place, and that's giving some of the world's wealthy apocalyptic visions.

Add Antonio Garcia Martinez to the list. The former Facebook executive and author has relocated to a five-acre wooded hideaway on a small island off the coast of Washington State, in preparation for potentially violent conflicts he sees ahead.

In an interview for BBC 2's "Secrets of Silicon Valley," Martinez predicted that rapidly evolving technologies will eliminate half of the world's jobs within 30 years, an upset that could lead to chaos and even armed revolution.

"I've seen what's coming," he told the BBC interviewer, as quoted at Mashable. "And it's a big self-driving truck that's about to run over this economy."

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"Within 30 years, half of humanity won't have a job," Martinez told the BBC. "It could get ugly — there could be a revolution."

He added: "Every time I meet someone from outside Silicon Valley — a normy — I can think of 10 companies that are working madly to put that person out of a job."

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