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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) | ||
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. | |||
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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. |