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{{ | {{a|writer|}}Son of perma-doomprophet for the legal industry, Professor {{author|Richard Susskind}}. | ||
If the foreword to his book {{br|A World Without Work}} is anything to go by, Susskind Jr has spent most of his, as yet, short adult life advising politicians, listening to academics, and then being one, so it should not come as a surprise that his expostulations on the future of the world — [[Technological unemployment|that machines will take over and we’re all going to be sharecropped for battery acid]] — is impressive in its theoretical gusto, owes more than a bit to Blade Runner, but is a touch short of a sense of the basic messy intractability of real life. It looks awesome as a model, in other words. | If the foreword to his book {{br|A World Without Work}} is anything to go by, Susskind Jr has spent most of his, as yet, short adult life advising politicians, listening to academics, and then being one, so it should not come as a surprise that his expostulations on the future of the world — [[Technological unemployment|that machines will take over and we’re all going to be sharecropped for battery acid]] — is impressive in its theoretical gusto, owes more than a bit to Blade Runner, but is a touch short of a sense of the basic messy intractability of real life. It looks awesome as a model, in other words. | ||