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'''[https://g.co/kgs/cwgGvE ''A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond'']''' by [[Daniel Susskind]] (2020)
'''[https://g.co/kgs/cwgGvE ''A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond'']''' by [[Daniel Susskind]] (2020)


In which {{author|Daniel Susskind}} grasps a flagon of {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}’s home-made Kool-Aid and bets the farm.
Dr. Susskind, scion of the storied futurology dynasty, will doubtless find enough [[general counsel]] who are anxious to seem at the technological vanguard — and interested mugs like me, who are suckers for sci-fi alternative histories — at least to recoup his advance but {{br|A World Without Work}} will not signpost, let alone dent, the  immutable trajectory of modern employment, failing as it does to understand how humans, organisations or economies work, while ignoring — neigh, ''contradicting'' — the whole history of technology, from the plough.
 
Dr. Susskind, scion of the Susskind Futurology Clan, will doubtless find enough [[general counsel]] who are anxious to seem at the technological vanguard — and interested mugs like me, who are suckers for sci-fi alternative histories — at least to recoup his advance but {{br|A World Without Work}} will not signpost, let alone dent, the  immutable trajectory of modern employment, failing as it does to understand how humans, organisations or economies work, while ignoring — neigh, ''contradicting'' — the whole history of technology, from the plough.


Technology has ''never'' destroyed overall labour, and Susskind gives no good grounds for believing it will suddenly start now.
Technology has ''never'' destroyed overall labour, and Susskind gives no good grounds for believing it will suddenly start now.